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"MEN OUGHT ALWAYS to PRAY, and NOT FAINT"

"Give yourselves to prayer and the ministry of the Word. If you do
not pray, God will probably lay you aside from your ministry, as
He did me, to teach you to pray." - Robert Murray McCheyne

"Let me burn out for God. After all, whatever God may appoint,
prayer is the great thing. Oh, that I might be a man of prayer!"
- Henry Martyn

"Before a word of petition is offered, we should have the definite
and vivid consciousness that we are talking to God and should
believe that He is listening to our petition and is going to grant the
thing that we ask of Him. We should look to the Holy Spirit to
really lead us into the presence of God and should not be hasty
in words until He has actually brought us there." - R. A. Torrey

"Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element in
prayer." - E. M. Bounds

"The goal of prayer is the ear of God." - E. M. Bounds

"O Brother, pray; in spite of Satan, pray; spend hours in prayer;
rather neglect friends than not pray; rather fast and lose breakfast,
dinner, tea, and supper- and sleep too- than not pray. And we
must not talk about prayer, we must pray in right earnest. The
Lord is near. He comes softly while the virgins slumber." - Andrew Bonar

"We can never expect to grow in the likeness of our Lord unless
we follow His example and give more time to communion with the
Father. A revival of real praying would produce a spiritual
revolution." - E.M. Bounds

"Holy living is essential preparation for prayer." - E.M. Bounds

"The one concern of the devil is to keep Christians from praying.
He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work and
prayerless religion. He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom,
but trembles when we pray." - Samuel Chadwick

"The greatest hindrance to effective prayer is sin. Satan's greatest
goal is to keep us from our knees." - Dick Eastman

"The coming revival must begin with a great revival of prayer. It is
in the closet, with the door shut, that the sound of abundance of
rain will first be heard." - Andrew Murray

"If I should neglect prayer but a single day, I should lose a great
deal of the fire of faith." - Martin Luther

"He only can truly pray who is all aglow for holiness, for God, and
for heaven." E. M. Bounds

"When God has something very great to accomplish for His
church, it is His will that there should precede it, the extraordinary
prayers of His people... when God is about to accomplish great
things for His Church, He will begin by remarkably pouring out the
spirit of grace and supplication" - Jonathan Edwards.

"The price of prayerlessness far exceeds the price of prayer." - Selected

"TAKE TIME to PRAY!"

"The prayer of faith is the only power in the universe to which the
Great Jehovah yields." - Robert Hall

"If the spirit of prayer departs, it is a sure indication of a
backslidden heart, for while the first love of a Christian continues
he is sure to be drawn by the Holy Spirit to wrestle much in prayer."
-Charles G. Finney, in Revival Lectures

"Prayerlessness is sin." - Harold Lindsell

"Prayer is my chief work, and it is by means of it that I carry on
the rest." - Thomas Hooker, Puritan

"The true church lives and moves and has its being in prayer."
- Leonard Ravenhill

"All hindrance to prayer arises from ignorance of the teaching of
God's Holy Word on the life of holiness He has planned for all His
children or from an unwillingness to consecrate ourselves fully to
Him." - The Kneeling Christian

"The mightiest prayers are often those drenched with the Word of
God." - Herbert Lockyer

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

"Our greatest victories are won on our knees and with empty
stomachs." - Julio C. Ruibal

"A man who kneels before God will stand before men." - Leonard Ravenhill

"To pray strenuously needs careful cultivation." - Oswald Chambers

"All earthly things with earth will pass away; Prayer grasps
eternity. Then pray, always pray!" - E. H. Bickersteth

"True prayer is a lonely business." - Samuel Chadwick

"Every work of God can be traced to some kneeling form." - D L. Moody

"Prayer is not an exercise, it is the life." - Oswald Chambers

"We think of prayer as a preparation for work, or a calm after
having done work, whereas prayer is the essential work. It is the
supreme activity of everything that is noblest in our personality."
- Oswald Chambers

"Prayer is life passionately wanting, wishing, desiring God's triumph.
Prayer is life striving and toiling everywhere and always for that
ultimate victory." - George Campbell Morgan

"Too busy; O forgive, Dear Lord, that I should ever be, too much
engrossed in earthly tasks, to spend an hour with thee." - A.B. Christiansen

"O, let the place of secret prayer become to me the most beloved
spot on earth." -- Andrew Murray

"The secret of praying is praying in secret." -- Leonard Ravenhill

"Prayer itself is an art which only the Holy Ghost can teach us. He
is the giver of all prayer. Pray for prayer - pray till you can pray."
-- Charles Haddon Spurgeon.