It is a mistake to look for grace to visit us as a kind of benign magic, or to expect God’s help to come as a windfall apart from conditions known & met. To desire revival, for instance, and at the same time to neglect prayer & devotion is to wish one way and walk another.
—Tozer
Prayer was so sweet an exercise to me, that I knew not how to cease, lest I should lose the spirit of prayer.
—David Brainerd
Begin the day with thanksgiving and prayer. Thanksgiving for the definite mercies of the past, prayer for the definite needs of the present day.
—R. A. Torrey
Close the day with thanksgiving and prayer. Review all the blessings of the day and thank God in detail for them. Nothing goes farther to increase faith in God and in His Word than a calm review at the close of each day of what God has done for you that day.
—R. A. Torrey
Happy is the Christian that has a little band of friends that meet together regularly for prayer.
—R. A. Torrey
Unite with a church where there is a spirit of prayer, where the prayer-meetings are well kept up.
—R. A. Torrey
There are men who worship gold just as really as if they had a sovereign hung up in their bedchamber, and said their prayers to it.
—R. A. Torrey
A truly gracious soul cannot long subsist without secret prayer. It is true – there is not always an equal freedom and delight, a like enlargement and comfort in those retirements, but yet he cannot be without them.
—John Flavel
One can pray while walking the street, or riding in the car, and one should lift the heart to God right in the busiest moments of life, but we need set set times of prayer, times when we go alone with God, shut the door and talk to our Father in the secret place.
—R. A. Torrey
It is not enough that we have our times of secret prayer to God alone with Him, we also need to have fellowship with others in prayer.
—R. A. Torrey
Stop in the midst of the bustle and hurry and temptation of the day for thanksgiving and prayer. A few minutes spent alone with God at midday will go far to keep you calm in the midst of the worries and anxieties of modern life.
—R. A. Torrey
Do not engage in any amusement that you cannot make a matter of prayer, that you cannot ask God’s blessing upon. Pray before your play just as much as you would pray before your work.
—R. A. Torrey
Never let the rush of business crowd out prayer. Prayer is the greatest time saver known to man. The more work crowds you, the more time you should take for prayer.
—R. A. Torrey
Let us pray for those who do not want our prayers. God is able to reach them.
—D. L. Moody
If our sermons are going to reach the hearts and consciences of the people, we must be in much prayer to God, that there may be power with the Word.
—D. L. Moody
My friends, if we are going to do a great work for God, we must spend much time in prayer, we have got to be closeted with God.
—D. L. Moody
Prayer is more than petition, and includes praise, thanksgiving, recollection and adoration.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
We are not so far from Him but that He can see our tears, and hear the faintest whisper when we lift our hearts to Him in prayer.
—D. L. Moody
“We cannot commune with God, who is a consuming fire, if there is no fire in our prayers.”
[On prayer.] There is no other way but to begin and go on and to go through.
—Jonathan Edwards
Earnest prayer does abundantly more towards preparing the heart than other prayer.
—Jonathan Edwards
God is not obliged. He has made no promise but yet ’tis his pleasure often to answer the prayers of those who are full of hypocrisy and all manner of abomination.
—Jonathan Edwards
My dear brother, call down a blessing by your prayers. The LORD will hear those who put their trust in his mercy through CHRIST.
—George Whitefield
The first and grand thing, is to get a true and lively faith in CHRIST JESUS, seeking for it by earnest prayer.
—George Whitefield
People do their country more service by pleading for it in prayer than by finding fault with things they have no power to alter.
—John Newton