Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.

Prayer is the first thing, the second thing, the third thing necessary to a minister. Pray, then, my dear brother; pray, pray, pray.

Jesus is now the Lord; He is enthroned at the right hand of God; He is reigning in His kingdom. But this is a Lordship and a kingly reign which is known only to believers. It must be confessed by faith. His Second Coming will mean nothing less than the Lordship which is His now will be visible to all the world. When we pray, "Thy kingdom come," this is what we are praying for: the effectual and universal rule of Christ in all the world, not only over believers The Last Things (Grand Rapids, Eerdmans: 1978) 48

Christianity is fundamentally convalescence ("Pray without ceasing" = Keep buzzing the nurse.)

The church will not get on its feet until it first gets on its knees.

Words are but the body, the garment, the outside of prayer; sighs are nearer the heart work.

When I bow to God, God stoops to me.

Some men's prayers need to be cut short at both ends and set on fire in the middle.

The best prayers have often more groans than words.

We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet not so small) gifts. How can God entrust great things to one who will not thankfully receive from Him the little things?

Prayer pulls the rope below and the great bell rings above in the ears of God. Some scarcely stir the bell, for they pray so languidly. Others give but an occasional pluck at the rope. But he who wins with heaven is the man who grasps the rope boldly and pulls continuously, with all his might.

You now have, Christian, the armour of God; but take heed thou forgettest not to engage the God of this armour by humble prayer for your assistance, lest for all this you be worsted in the fight.

What we win by prayer we may wear with comfort, and must wear with praise.

...that which God abundantly makes the subject of his promises, God's people should abundantly make the subject of their prayers...

Have you noticed how much praying for revival has been going on of late - and how little revival has resulted? I believe the problem is that we have been trying to substitute praying for obeying, and it simply will not work. To pray for revival while ignoring the plain precept laid down in Scripture is to waste a lot of words and get nothing for our trouble. Prayer will become effective when we stop using it as a substitute for obedience.

Some men's prayers need to be cut short at both ends and set on fire in the middle.

I had rather learn what some men really judge about their own justification from their prayers than from their writings.

Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?

Short prayers are long enough. There were but three words in the petition which Peter gasped out, but they were sufficient for his purpose. Not length but strength is desirable. A sense of need is a mighty teacher of brevity. If our prayers had less of the tail feathers of pride and more wing they would be all the better.

When a Christian shuns fellowship with other Christians, the devil smiles. When he stops studying the Bible, the devil laughs. When he stops praying, the devil shouts for joy.

If I fail to spend two hours in prayer each morning, the devil gets the victory through the day. I have so much business I cannot get on without spending three hours daily in prayer.

We have substituted relativity for reality, psychology for prayer, an inferiority complex for sin, social control for family worship, autosuggestion for conversion, reflex action for revelation, the spirit of the wheels for the power of the Spirit.

In praying for people one dislikes I find it helpful to remember that one is joining in His prayer for them.

Prayer doesn't work -- but God works through the prayers of His people.

What, then, is the nature of petitionary prayer? It is, in essence, rebellion - rebellion against the world in all its falleness, the absolute and undying refusal to accept as normal what is pervasively abnormal.

When mutual intercession takes the place of mutual accusation, then will the differences and the difficulties of brethren be overcome.

Make mine kneeling, for thus I came to glory.

Prayer is to religion what original research is to science.

A man prayed, and at first he thought that prayer was talking. But he became more quiet until in the end he realized that prayer is listening.

I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.

Christians and camels receive their burdens kneeling.

If you can't pray like you want to, pray as you can. God knows what you mean.

I feel it is far better to begin with God - to see his face first, to get my soul near him before it is near another.

The history of missions is the history of answered prayer. From Pentecost to the Haystack meeting in New England and from the days when Robert Morrison landed in China to the martyrdom of John and Betty Stam, prayer has been the source of power and the secret of spiritual triumph.

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not a straw whether they be clergymen or laymen; such alone will shake the gates of hell and set up the kingdom of heaven on earth. God does nothing but in answer to prayer.

God expects to hear from you, before you can expect to hear from Him.

This petition demands nothing else than that God's honor be sought in all, before all, and beyond all else, and that our whole life rebound forever only to God's glory.

To pray declares that God and his world are at cross-purposes; to "sleep," or "faint," or "lose heart" is to act as if they are not.

Oh! men and brethren, what would this heart feel if I could but believe that there were some among you who would go home and pray for a revival ­ men whose faith is large enough, and their love fiery enough to lead them from this moment to exercise unceasing intercessions that God would appear among us and do wondrous things here, as in the times of former generations.

When I say 'hallowed be thy name; thy kingdom come," I should be adding in my mind the words "in and through me," and so giving myself to God afresh to be, so far as I can be, the means of answering my own prayer. And when I say "thy will be done," I should mean this as a prayer that I, along with the rest of God's people, may learn to be obedient.

Whether we like it or not, asking is the rule of the kingdom.

he best way to fight against sin is to fight it on our knees.

The thermometer of a church is its prayer meeting.

Work as if everything depended upon your work, and pray as if everything depended upon your prayer.

Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.

Prayer is faith passing into act. A union of the will and intellect realising in an itellectual act. It is the whole man that prays. Less than this is wishing or lip work, a sham or a mummery.

We ought to see the face of God every morning before we see the face of man.

He that has prayed well has studied well.

All the minister's efforts will be vanity if he have not unction. Unction must come down from heaven and spread a savor and feeling and relish over his ministry; and among the other means of qualifying himself for his office, the Bible must hold the first place, and the last place also must be given to the Bible and prayer.

The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.

It must be asserted that petitionary prayer only flourishes where there is a twofold belief: that God's name is hallowed too irregularly, his kingdom has come too little, and his will is done too infrequently; second, that God himself can change this situation.

And prayer is the turning away from ourselves to God in the confidence that he will provide the help we need. Prayer humbles us as needy, and exalts God as wealthy.

If sinners be dammed, at least let them leap to Hell over our bodies. If they will perish, let them perish with our arms about their knees. Let no one go there unwarned and unprayed for.