We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another.

--William Law

"Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?"

- Corrie Ten Boom

"I would rather teach one man to pray than then men to preach."

-Charles Spurgeon

"Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays."

-Soren Kierkegaard

"I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had absolutely no other place to go."

-- Abraham Lincoln

There is a mighty lot of difference between saying prayers and praying.

--John G. Lake

"The only way to Heaven is prayer; a prayer of the heart, which every one is capable of, and not of reasonings which are the fruits of study, or exercise of the imagination, which, in filling the mind with wandering objects, rarely settle it; instead of warming the heart with love to God, they leave it cold and languishing."

--Jeanne Guyon

"Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise our persons, but they are helpless against our prayers."

-Sidlow Baxter

Always respond to every impulse to pray. The impulse to pray may come when you are reading or when you are battling with a text. I would make an absolute law of this ­ always obey such an impulse.

--Martyn Lloyd-Jones

"To get nations back on their feet, we must first get down on our knees."

-Billy Graham

Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.

--John Bunyan

"The man who mobilizes the church to pray will have a greater impact on world evangelization than anyone in history."

"Prayer is not preparation for a greater work, prayer is the greater work."

-Oswald Chambers

 "Some people pray just to pray and some people pray to know God."
 

--Andrew Murray

"Man is never so tall as when he kneels before God-Never so great as when he humbles himself before God. and the man who kneels to God can stand up to anything."

-Louis H. Evans

"Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?"

-Corrie Ten Boom

"Do not pray for easy lives; pray to be stronger people.  Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers; pray for power equal to your tasks."

-Phillip Brooks

Of all the duties enjoined by Christianity none is more essential and yet more neglected than prayer.

--François Fénelon

"The man who mobilizes the church to pray will have the greatest impact on world evangelization than anyone in history."

-Andrew Murray

"Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise our persons, but they are helpless against our prayers."

- Sidlow Baxter

You may pray for an hour and still not pray. You may meet God for a moment and then be in touch with Him all day.

--Fredrik Wisloff

"Wishing will never be a substitute for prayer."

--Ed Cole

"I have found the greatest power in the world is the power of prayer. "

-Cecil B. Demille

"I have so much to do that I spend several hours in prayer before I am able to do it."

--John Wesley

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

--John Bunyan