Prayer Quotes

C. S. Lewis – “For most of us the prayer in Gethsemane is the only model. Removing mountains can wait.”
Archibald Symson - It is better to be in deep dangers praying, than on high mountains of vanity playing.”
Me - “Prayer is the verbal release of faith – a specific faith for a specific purpose, all based on a specific promise from God.”
Matilda Andross – “Prayer is more powerful than habits, heredity, and natural tendencies. It can overcome all these. It is more powerful than the forces that hold the planets in place. Prayer, though it comes from the heart of an unlearned child of God, can suspend the laws of the universe, if such be God’s will, just as the sun stood still when Joshua prayed. There is no other power on earth that the enemy of souls hates and fears as he does prayer. We are told that ‘Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon his knees.’ “  [Matilda Andross "The Life That Wins" p. 38]
Maltbie D. Babcock – “Our prayers must mean something to us if they are to mean anything to God”
J. Sidlow Baxter – “I care not what black spiritual crisis we may come through or what delightful spiritual Canaan we may enter, no blessing of the Christian life becomes continually possessed unless we are men and women of regular, daily, unhurried secret lingerings in prayer.”
Henry Ward Beecher - “Prayer covers the whole of a man’s life. There is no thought, feeling, yearning or desire, however low, trifling, or vulgar we may deem it, which, if it affects our real interest or happiness, we may not lay before God and be sure of sympathy. His nature is such that our often coming does not tire him. The whole burden of the whole life of every man may be rolled on to God and not weary him, though it has wearied the man.”
Corrie Ten Boon – “A man is powerful on his knees.”  [Corrie ten Boom (1892-1983)]
E.M. Bounds – “God has of his own motion placed himself under the law of prayer, and has obligated himself to answer the prayers of men. He has ordained prayer as a means whereby he will do things through men as they pray, which he would not otherwise do. If prayer puts God to work on earth, then, by the same token, prayerlessness rules God out of the world’s affairs, and prevents him from working. The driving power, the conquering force in God’s cause is God himself. ‘Call on me and I will answer thee and who thee great and mighty things which though knowest not,’ is God’s challenge to prayer. Prayer puts God in full force into God’s work.”  [E.M. Bounds "The Weapon of Prayer" Chap. 2]
“What the church needs today is not more or better machinery, not new organizations, or more novel methods; but men whom the Holy Spirit can use– men of prayer, men mighty in prayer.”
“. . . every preacher who does not make prayer a mighty factor in his own life and ministry is weak as a factor in God’s work and is powerless to project God’s cause in this world.”
Phillips Brooks – “Prayer is not conquering God’s reluctance, but taking hold of God’s willingness.”