“Obedience is the master key to effectual prayer.”1 – Billy Graham
“In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart. ” – John Bunyan
“Why do we need to pray? Because the Christian life is a journey, and we need God’s strength and guidance along the way.” – Billy Graham
“We tend to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to be our first line of defense. We pray when there’s nothing else we can do, but God wants us to pray before we do anything at all. Most of us would prefer, however, to spend our time doing something that will get immediate results. We don’t want to wait for God to resolve matters in His good time because His idea of ‘good time’ is seldom in sync with ours.” – Oswald Chambers
“I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer.” – Martin Luther
“Jesus demonstrated the importance of prayer by His own example. His whole ministry was saturated with prayer.” – Billy Graham
“He who kneels the most, stands the best.” – D. L. Moody
“No man is greater than his prayer life. The pastor who is not praying is playing; the people who are not praying are straying. We have many organizers, but few agonizers; many players and payers, few pray-ers; many singers, few clingers; lots of pastors, few wrestlers; many fears, few tears; much fashion, little passion; many interferers, few intercessors; many writers, but few fighters. Failing here, we fail everywhere.” – Leonard Ravenhill
“Don’t forget to pray today because God did not forget to wake you up this morning.” – Oswald Chambers
“We never know how God will answer our prayers, but we can expect that He will get us involved in His plan for the answer. If we are true intercessors, we must be ready to take part in God’s work on behalf of the people for whom we pray.” – Corrie Ten Boom
“Praying and sinning will never live together in the same heart. Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.” – J. C. Ryle
“The greatest tragedy of life is not unanswered prayer, but unoffered prayer.” – F. B. Meyer
“When the devil sees a man or woman who really believes in prayer, who knows how to pray, and who really does pray, and, above all, when he sees a whole church on its face before God in prayer, he trembles as much as he ever did, for he knows that his day in that church or community is at an end.” – R. A. Torrey
“Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.” – Augustine
“Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.” – George Herbert
“Prayer is of transcendent importance. Prayer is the mightiest agent to advance God’s work. Praying hearts and hands only can do God’s work. Prayer succeeds when all else fails.” – E. M. Bounds
“Prayer can never be in excess.” – Charles Spurgeon
“Prayer is not an exercise, it is the life.” – Oswald Chambers
“I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.” – Phillips Brooks
“There is nothing that makes us love a man so much as praying for him.” – William Law
“Prayer delights God’s ear; it melts His heart; and opens His hand. God cannot deny a praying soul.” – Thomas Watson
“Fervent prayers produce phenomenal results.” – Woodrow Kroll
“It is not the body’s posture, but the heart’s attitude that counts when we pray.” – Billy Graham
“Notice, we never pray for folks we gossip about, and we never gossip about the folk for whom we pray! For prayer is a great deterrent.” – Leonard Ravenhill
“You must go forward on your knees.” – Hudson Taylor
“The man who mobilizes the Christian church to pray will make the greatest contribution to world evangelization in history.” – Andrew Murray
“The men who have done the most for God in this world have been early on their knees. He who fritters away the early morning, its opportunity and freshness, in other pursuits than seeking God will make poor headway seeking Him the rest of the day. If God is not first in our thoughts and efforts in the morning, He will be in the last place the remainder of the day.” – E. M. Bounds
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