While apologetics is powerful and can penetrate the mind only prayer can open the heart. While, I believe, that my apologetic posts can strengthen the faith of Christians, they must be combined with believing and convicting prayer if we are to reach the non-believer with the life changing message of Jesus. While apologetics is logical, prayer is powerful and this combination of prayer and apologetics is sheer dynamite! All of the quotes below are designed to show you the importance and power of prayer.1 Always remember that prayer is the fuel that allows apologetics to ignite and illuminate the soul.
“The spirit of prayer is more precious than treasures of gold and silver.” ~ John Bunyan
“Prayer – secret, fervent, believing prayer – lies at the root of all personal godliness.” ~ William Carey
“The thermometer of a church is its prayer meeting.” ~ Vance Havner
“If weak in prayer we are weak everywhere.” ~ Leonard Ravenhill
“The devil is not terribly frightened of our human efforts and credentials. But he knows his kingdom will be damaged when we begin to lift up our hearts to God.” ~ Jim Cymbala
“Intercession is the truly universal work for the Christian. No place is closed to intercessory prayer: no continent, no nation, no city, no organization, no office. No power on earth can keep intercession out.” ~ Richard Halverson
“The truths that I know best I have learned on my knees. I never know a thing well, till it is burned into my heart by prayer.” ~ John Bunyan
“He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life.” ~ William Law
“The measure of our love for others can largely be determined by the frequency and earnestness of our prayers for them.” ~ Arthur W. Pink
“Prayer is the greatest of all forces, because it honors God and brings him into active aid.” ~ Edward McKendree Bounds
“Prayer turns ordinary mortals into men of power. It brings power. It brings fire. It brings rain. It brings life. It brings God.” ~ Samuel Chadwick
“Prayer is the master strategy that God gives for the defeat and rout of Satan.” ~ Wesley L Duewel
“I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.” ~ Phillips Brooks
“Prayer girds human weakness with divine strength, turns human folly into heavenly wisdom, and gives to troubled mortals the peace of God. We know not what prayer can do.” ~ Charles Spurgeon
“Between the humble and contrite heart and the majesty of Heaven there are no barriers; the only password is prayer.” ~ Hosea Ballou
“The Lord’s Prayer reminds us that God longs for His people to communicate with Him, not just in church on Sunday, but wherever we are and whatever our need.” ~ David Jeremiah
“In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.” ~ John Bunyan
“A holy life does not live in the closet, but it cannot live without the closet.” ~ Edward McKendree Bounds
“We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer. It surmounts or removes all obstacles, overcomes every resisting force and gains its ends in the face of invincible hindrances.” ~ Edward McKendree Bounds
“No man is greater than his prayer life.” ~ Leonard Ravenhill
“I would rather teach one man to pray than ten men to preach.” ~ Charles Spurgeon
“Prayer: the key of the day and the lock of the night.” ~ Thomas Fuller
“God’s promises are to be our pleas in prayer.” ~ Matthew Henry
“Next to the wonder of seeing my Savior will be, I think, the wonder that I made so little use of the power of prayer.” ~ Dwight L. Moody
“Our prayers must not be efforts to bend God to our will but to yield ourselves to His.” ~ Catherine Marshall
“When the problem is worry, the prescription is prayer.” ~ David Jeremiah
1 All of the quotes below are from the following website: