1. "Prayer does not fit us for the
greater work; prayer is the greater work." Oswald Chambers.
2. “What the church needs today is not more machinery or better,
not new organizations or more novel methods, but men whom the Holy Ghost can
use—men of prayer, men mighty in prayer" E.M. Bounds
3. "Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our
arguments, despise our persons, but they are helpless against our prayers." J. Sidlow Baxter
4. "Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to
God for men is greater still." E.M. Bounds
5. "Satan trembles when he sees the weakest Christian on his
knees." William Cowper
6. “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 he
trembles when we pray.” Samuel Chadwick
7. “I would rather
teach one man to pray than ten men to preach.” Charles Spurgeon
8. “To make intercession for men is the most powerful and
practical way in which we can express our love for them." John Calvin
9. "If you want that splendid power in prayer, you must
remain in loving, living, lasting, conscious, practical, abiding union with the
Lord Jesus Christ." C. H. Spurgeon
10. "The word of God
is the food by which prayer is nourished and made strong." E. M.
Bounds
11. "Prayer
should be the breath of our breathing, the thought of our thinking, the soul of
our feeling, the life of our living, the sound of our hearing, and the growth
of our growing. Prayer is length
without end, width without bounds, height without top, and depth without
bottom; illimitable in its breadth, exhaustless in height, fathomless in
depths, and infinite in extension.
Oh, for determined men and women who will rise early and really burn for
God. Oh for a faith that will
sweep into heaven with the early dawning of morning and have ships from a
shoreless sea loaded in the soul's harbor ere the ordinary laborer has knocked
the dew from the scythe or the lackluster has turned from his pallet of straw
to spread nature's treasures of fruit before the early buyers. Oh, for such.” Homer W. Hodge
