“The Sunday morning service shows how popular your church is. The evening services show how popular your pastor is. Your private prayer time shows you how popular God is!” – Leornard Ravenhill1
“The primary purpose of prayer is not to get something, but to know Someone.” – David Platt
“If the Christian does not allow prayer to drive sin out of his life, sin will drive prayer out of his life. Like light and darkness, the two cannot dwell together.” – M.E. Andross
“Pray as though everything depended on God; work as though everything depended on you.” – Augustine
“True prayer is asking God what He wants.” – William Barclay
“The prayer that begins with trustfulness, and passes on into waiting, will always end in thankfulness, triumph, and praise.” – Alexander Maclaren
“Prayer is life passionately wanting, wishing, desiring God’s triumph.” – G. Campbell Morgan
“People may refuse our love or reject our message, but they are defenseless against our prayers.” – Rick Warren
“Prayer can do anything that God can do.” – E. M. Bounds
“We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.” – Oswald Chambers
“Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled with God.” – John Bunyan
“The best Christian is he that is the greatest monopolizer of time for private prayer.” – Thomas Brooks
“Closet communion needs time for the revelation of God’s presence. It is vain to say, ‘I have too much work to do to find time.’ You must find time or forfeit blessing. God knows how to save for you the time you sacredly keep for communion with Him.” – A. T. Pierson
“Could it be that one reason we have great problems is that God wants to show us great solutions? He longs to show us the riches of His grace and the poverty of our own resources. Prayer is uniquely designed to demonstrate both truths.”- David Jeremiah
“God’s promises are to be our pleas in prayer.” – Matthew Henry
“A ‘prayer warrior’ is a person who is convinced that God is omnipotent—that God has the power to do anything, to change anyone and to intervene in any circumstance. A person who truly believes this refuses to doubt God.” – Bill Hybels
“Fervent prayers produce phenomenal results.” – Woodrow Kroll
“Men who know their God are before anything else men who pray, and the first point where their zeal and energy for God’s glory come to expression is in their prayers. If there is little energy for such prayer, and little consequent practice of it, this is a sure sign that as yet we scarcely know our God.” – J. I. Packer
“It is not surprising that prayer malfunctions when we try to make it a domestic intercom to call upstairs for more comforts in the den.” – John Piper
1 All of the following quotes are from the websites below:
Prayer Quotes | Precept Austin
Prayer shows how popular God is – Leonard Ravenhill | Deeper Christian Quotes