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Communion
with God

Faith

Fasting

Healing

Holiness

Ministry

Missions/
Evangelism

Prayer,
Revival
& Missions

Prayer

Repentance

Revival

Spiritual
Hunger

“THESE ARE QUOTES AND COMMENTS THAT HAVE BEEN AN INSPIRATION TO ME OVER THE LAST 23 YEARS OF MINISTRY.” - REV. DEAN BERG

BEFORE PREACHING, ALWAYS REALIGN MY ATTITUDE TO THESE:
1. Walk above all carnal decisions and prejudices.
2. Whether I acknowledge it or not, bitterness will affect my ability and it will eventually ruin me.
3. I can never minister in faith to someone I'm passing judgment on.
4. Look diligently for bitterness or any other poison that gets in my heart, which will trouble me and cause others to be defiled. Heb. 12:15
5. Am I ministering by personal frustration or by the Spirit of God I've been in fellowship with?
6. Ps. 106:32 - I'm not to allow their ulcers to give me ulcers.
7. The Spirit of God will never minister condemnation, but produces a cleansing effect.
8. Caring costs by the world's standards. Judging is cheap!
9. Each service is individual, move independently with the Holy Ghost each time as I trust and reverence and honor Him, He'll manifest Himself.
10. Need to rely on His ability and power, letting the Greater One minister, not me.
11. Preach the gospel in simplicity without giving the people a way out. Believe God! You're anointed! - The ministry is not a right but a privilege!
12. Always respond to the Spirit of God, not some pattern I'm set in.

I am to so immerse the people in teaching as to immerse them into the name (nature) of the Father Himself.

It's what I renew my mind with regularly that will be effective in my life.

Preach by the Word what is fully persuaded in my life.

A commitment is not a commitment until I've finished doing it.

Preach what I practice. Preach what I do. Preach what is real in my life.

If you say what someone else says, you can only share it. But if you're speaking what God has given you, then you can preach it.

Feed the people what they can take, then they will become hungry for more.

I've been preparing all my life for today.

3 STEPS TO UNDERSTANDING SCRIPTURE:
1. What does it say (observation)
2. What does it mean (Interpretation)
3. How does it apply to life or to me (Application)

Always give your spirit an opportunity to grow by giving it the first chance to answer each problem or question before your thoughts or body gives their opinion.

If Satan can contaminate me then he can keep the whole congregation from being blessed.

God doesn't want men controlling ministries; He wants the Spirit of God to control it.

You might not be able to sing the high notes or the low notes, but if you could sing just one note, would you sing it for My glory? - Dennis Gerrard

No matter how many people are there, preach not for what's in the crowd, but for obedience to God.

People aren't always going to contribute to your joy. You need to look somewhere else for your joy. Try God for instance! You might like it. Ps. 100:2. If you have joy, you'll have strength for any job.

WATCH OUT FOR THESE 3 KINDS OF PEOPLE:
1. Super Spiritual
2. Super Sweet
3. Super Slick

Some people don't know the difference between the supernatural and the spooky natural.

Prayer is not a monologue, but a dialog. God and I talking together.

All spirits cry out, they do not lie dormant. If they are not crying out to God, they are crying out somewhere, to something.

When talking to God, always remember who you are talking to.

I'm going through, Jesus, I'm going through,
I'll pay the price whatever others do,
I'll take the way of the Lord's despised few,
I'm going through, Jesus, I'm going through. – Smith Wigglesworth

Keep giving people the same Word all the time. The people need it. Like potatoes - there is potato salad, fried, mashed, etc. Keep giving them the Word. - Kenneth E. Hagin

Laziness, extravagance, poor management will defeat you. Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can.

The way of faith is actually older than the law, and it is the men of faith who are the true children of Abraham.

To conquer fear, you must practice your faith in your crisis moments. -Oral Roberts

Devil, you can't touch my life for I minister in the name of Jesus of Nazareth. –Oral Roberts

If a man's not happy and fulfilled in what he's doing, He probably doesn't have the anointing for it. - Dean Moffat

5 SIMPLE WORDS AS AN EXPRESSION OF A BELIEVING HEART:
1. I see it
2. I desire it
3. I expect it
4. I accept it
5. I trust Christ for it

In surrender: Let Him have all. Give up your life to be as full of Him, of His presence, of His will, of His service as He can make it. Give up yourself to Him - not to be saved from disobedience, so that now you may be happy and live your own life without sinning and trouble - No, but that He may have you wholly for Himself as a vessel and as a channel which He can fill with Himself, with His life and love for men in His blessed service. Let my will be utterly given up to God's will.

DECEIT: That which gives a false impression, whether by appearance, statement or influence, is said of riches in Mt. 13:22; Mk. 4:19; Heb. 3:13. Lust is excited by deceit. Deceit is the source of its strength. Lusts are not deceitful in themselves. Eph. 4:22

The joys of our future will destroy the sorrows of our past.

Do ask God to open your eyes and bring you to know His will for yourself. Do beware lest the secret fear of having to give up too much, of having to become too peculiar and entirely devoted to God, keep you back. Beware of seeking just enough religion to give ease to conscience and then not desiring to do and be and give God all He is worthy of. And beware, above all, of "limiting God," of making Him a liar by refusing to believe what He has said He can and will do. - Andrew Murray

The Spirit Himself is not small, but might be small on His influence you allow in your life.

We must walk from the inside out and not from the outside out.

An unsound mind is a mind that controls the life and actions. A sound mind is a mind in submission to the Spirit of God.

This is not Professional Christianity where we punch the conscience time clock.
How much of who I am today is a result of what God has put in me, and how much is a result of what man or the world has put into me.

Obedience is doing what must be done, how it must be done, when it must be done and doing it that way every time.

A word to the wise is sufficient: The school of experience is good but the tuition is high.

When God calls you to a vision it's yours whether it looks like it or not.

It is always more profitable to believe rather than doubt. Have confidence and faith that what you're preaching is accomplishing what it’s set out to do!

Faith is not something you try to believe; faith is something you can no longer doubt.

Faith is the radar that sees through the fog. - Corrie Ten Boom

Faith is living our life by what we see in our heart from the Word of God we've heard, rather than living by what we see happening around us.

The Gospel is the evidence from God, which cannot be seen.

Where the Holy Ghost is not in manifestation I doubt that He is there. - Smith Wigglesworth

Sin has made us workers; grace has made us trusters. Sin dethroned the spirit of man and has crowned the intellect. - Kenneth E. Hagin

When man comes to recognize the dominance of the spirit, he'll live in the realm of the supernatural with out effort. He's learned to trust in God. - Kenneth E. Hagin

When we make adjustments of conscience to accommodate momentary convenience, we tear down the foundations of character.

Strong convictions come from a sensitive conscience enlightened by right beliefs. When we tamper with conscience it's like messing with a compass and we get off course. - Kenneth E. Hagin

The hunger for the supernatural is a manifestation of man's longing for contact with an unseen God.

If you'll walk in the power of the Word you will defeat the natural, whereas if you try to do things in the natural you will defeat the power of God.

The natural man must know in order to believe, the spiritual man must believe in order to know.

We do not need to prove the Bible first and then accept it; we accept it and then let it prove itself.

Divine health is a lot easier to walk in than divine healing is to obtain.

Human knowledge needs to be understood to be loved. Divine knowledge needs to be loved to be understood.

The extent of the control that your inward man has over the outer man, that's how mature your spirit is.

Faith in action causes us to do the impossible and the unreasonable.

Life is a series of opportunities cleverly disguised as impossible situations.

Did you know that what looks to be a problem is a greater miracle?

If you've got a church that's short in an area (health, finances, etc.) it's because you're not teaching on it.

First impressions are the best impressions. Consider this to be a rule of thumb. Unless otherwise led.

True guidance is moment by moment.

We can bring hope into focus and push it with faith and your imagination will become reality.

I don't work to meet my needs, I work to please my Father. My God shall supply all my needs according to His riches in Glory.

You will not die before you become what God says is to be done. God will tell you where to go and what to do. Judges 6:14

All we can do for the Lord is hinder Him. We don't do great works because of what we've done but because of what God is doing through us.

I have a covenant with God and as I do my part God will do His. For it is when I know who I am as they did (Josh. 10:8-11) that all heaven is behind me backing what I do and say in the name of Jesus.

Grace is not unmerited favor - unmerited favor is mercy. Grace is what brings me out of it again.

(Finances) To the degree of faith you're able to call it in is the degree to which you're able to handle it.

Prayer does not cause my faith to work. It is my faith that causes my prayers to work.

Scripture was not written to increase our knowledge but to guide our conduct.

Don't let circumstances affect the word of God coming out of my mouth. The Word of God coming out of my mouth will affect circumstances.

Faith in a decision is what makes it work. Not whether or not it’s the best decision.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

God won't do anything in your life unless you permit Him to.

Man lives by every word that proceedeth out of his mouth by God.

If we have enough confidence to have faith in man, how much more shall we have faith in God?

Am I making plans to succeed or am I living a cop-out to get by.

You can never walk on the water till you get out of the boat.

To the degree it comes out of your heart is the degree it is in your heart.

Jesus never doubted His word. When He spoke to the tree, He knew it would die.

Have you come to Jesus or have you come to church?

Give me a challenge and I'll meet it with joy.

God's Word is not intimidated by mountains, but mountains are intimidated by the Word of God.

You have to examine yourself tonight to see whether you are in the faith, or only talking faith.

The resources of God are waiting for the man who will not seek his own.

You can so live in the presence of God that immediately when Satan's powers present themselves, you shall discern them.

Purity is vital to faith.

The most staggering condition of helplessness which could ever be brought before you is your chance for God to use you.

If you ane to increase in the life of God, then you must settle it in your heart that you will not at any time resist the Holy Spirit.

The devil always comes to try you in your weakness, but we should not forget that we are stronger in our weakness than in our strength if we dare believe.

When Jesus contested the devil in the wilderness, all the demon powers, the wild beasts, and all that was in the wilderness had a vision of the most incredible man that ever lived.

Oh, to be so laid hold of by the Holy Ghost that you have no choice. You have your choice, but you won't choose. God must choose for you.

Psychological development will enable a child to live in society and earn a living. Spiritual development will enable him or her to understand the real meaning of life.

Many people have been religiously brainwashed instead of New Testament taught.

"Faith is revealed in Word and action."

Great faith comes out of great tests and great trials. - Kenneth E. Hagin

Great victories come out of great battles. - Kenneth E. Hagin

Faith is what you are speaking. Mk. 5:28, 34

You can say it with your mouth and believe it in your heart but it’s got to be in line with God's Word.

God's Word will always work for everybody!

When it comes to the place where we have to encourage believers to believe, it's a result of the Word of God losing its reality in our lives.

If I'm believing God for something, I need scripture to stand on. Faith can only begin where the will of God is known. - Kenneth E. Hagin

If I stand on "nothing in particular" in the scripture, that's what I'll get "Nothing in particular". - Kenneth E. Hagin

I must listen to the voice on the inside, not the outside. Shut out all else. I must learn the difference between voices.

The Holy Spirit knows how to pray me out of things I should be out of and into things that I should be into. He knows how to do the same with my children.

Faith never struggles, it rests.

If you put the Word of God in you when you don't need it, the Spirit of God will bring it back to you when you do need it.

If you don't belong to a local church you're disobedient and unfaithful to the scriptures.

From the time of the asking to the time of the receiving, faith sees no pitfalls.

The Abraham and Jesus kind of faith never gets nervous and it never wonders.

A lot of Christians make decisions but they don't have the determination to back it up.

Jesus put the world first and himself second.

It's not just enough to be a good Christian and love the Lord; you've got to obey God.

Jesus never said something just to hear his brain rattle or to hear His tongue flap.

If you don't have your inner man built up, the devil will make a fool of you.

Jesus had the Word in Him a long time before Satan ever hit Him and you better do likewise.

People that don't speak the Word live by bread and water.

The worst thing you ever did with your life was confess what's wrong with you.

People get all happy and emotional over hearing the Word, yet never get serious about God enough to do anything about it.

When it comes to the Word, you don't think nothing, you either know or you don't know.

The only way out of poverty is to give your way out. If there were any other way He would have told us.

Faith is possessing the thing you hope for.

Within the Word is the way to obtain the most perfect faith in God.

There is one thing more beautiful than miracles. - Jesus

All a man of faith needs to know is that God has spoken!

Faith does not wait for the walls to fall down; faith shouts them down!

If I could buy a man for what he's worth, and sell them for what they think they're worth, I could make a fortune.

Grace: God's willingness to use His power on my behalf!

God won't show me His willingness until I find out His will. When you know that God will, then God's willing. If you're in doubt about God's willingness, then God won't.

My faith is in the Word! Not in my prayer!

Faith doesn't wait. Faith takes.

It's not a color problem between blacks and whites, etc. It's a devil problem.

You cannot believe beyond actual knowledge.

I'd rather set my goals high and reach half of them than set them at nothing and reach all of it.

Great faith cometh from great tests. Great victories come from great battles.

It's important for us to have a Bible sized God and a Bible sized devil.

When you're willfully ignorant of the word you'll be judged.

Most great truth comes out of sorrow and suffering.

I'm not gonna tell God how big my mountains are. I'm gonna tell my mountains how big my God is.

Mountain, I speak to you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. You defeated me once, you defeated me twice. But I'm gonna defeat you cause you can't get any bigger, but I can.

If what Jesus said is true, then me getting my prayers heard and answered depends more on me than it does God. - Bro. Hagin

I don't care what my neighbors think. They don't care what I think. - Kenneth Copeland

It's possible, it's easy, because God is big. - T.L. Osborn

Preach faith until you have it. Then because you have it, you will preach it.

Faith is a transaction that you believe you get.

Some people's minds are like cement, thoroughly mixed up and well set. - Bro. Hagin

If you can find in the Bible your answer, then there's no reason for God to speak to you anyway else. - Bro. Hagin

Limit is not on His willingness to give but on our ability to ask and our capacity to believe.

What you are speaks so loud I can't hear what you say.

What you're not up on, you're down on.

I must build the word into my spirit, before I pray, until there's no doubt there.

As long as you're alive, you'll deal with 3 areas: the flesh, the devil and the world. Crucify the flesh, resist the devil, and love not the world.

Prayer begins by talking to God, but it ends by listening to Him.

In a world that hopes for the best, Jesus Christ is the best hope.

I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved.

You're only as big as the problem that gets you down!

It makes all the difference whether one sees darkness through the light or brightness through the shadows.

Some people are riding the streetcar of self-confidence on a downward plunge to destruction.

Vision without commitment is dead! Dreams and Commitment are two different things. Vision directs you toward change but its commitment that causes those changes to come to pass.

Looking back stops forward progress. Vision without commitment is dead! It's one thing to be inspired but its another thing to be dedicated to something.

Live or die, sink or swim, go under or go over, I'm committed to it!

Most ministers are trying to build their ministries instead of trying to build the kingdom. Jn. 3:27-29. Get our eyes off of what we're gonna do and get our eyes on what Jesus is gonna do. Seek that you may excel to the edifying of the body.

In a situation when the Word of God comes to your mind, act on it before you reason it out.

Prayer won't heal anybody. The prayer of faith will! James 5:14-15.

Sickness and disease is the foul offspring of his father the devil and of his mother, sin. - John Alexander Dowie

CONFESSION DOES 3 THINGS FOR THE BELIEVER:
1. Locates Him
2. Fixes the landmarks of our life
3. Mightily affects your spirit

Authority is delegated power. The value of authority depends upon the force behind the user. Lk. 10:19.

A lot of problems exist because we're not doing anything about them. Mt. 18:18. Its not bound in heaven until its bound on earth.

If you let your mind dominate you, it will lead you back into spiritual death. It will lead you back into sickness, etc, defeat.

God is the giver of energy. - Smith Wigglesworth

Any dedicated man is a misunderstood person. - Lester Sumrall

Worry! If it continues, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.

The call of God is like fire, it will consume you.

Faith is the eyes by which we see and enjoy what others cannot see and enjoy.

Faith is to the spirit man what your eyes are to the natural man.

Christianity is not man making things happen. Christianity is God performing His Word.

God can't finish anything He hasn’t started.

Ultimate Commitment: It's not what my church can do for me but what can I do for my church.

God is not a lieutenant. He's a General! There's a big difference!

Prayers not gonna get me out, God's gonna get me out!

Some read the Bible in Greek, some read the Bible in Hebrew, I'd rather read the Bible in the Holy Ghost! The original interpretation.

A will unused is a will owned. Time unused will find a sinner

Your dreams will always be opposed by someone.

Poverty is the starting point for prosperity.

A consistent, persistent will to believe strengthens faith.

Hope is a favorable and confident expectation.

Faith is you having knowledge of God and acting on it.

Your desires through your disciplines can become your delights.

The light that shines farthest shines brightest nearest home!

The supreme task of the church is the evangelization of the world!

There's a room in the Spirit where the flesh is not welcome!

If you disobey God along one line, it's very easy to disobey God along another line!

I AM SATAN'S PERSONAL NIGHTMARE!

I am not going to let doubt or unbelief defeat me. Doubt and unbelief are of the devil. Faith and love are of God. I walk in love and I walk by faith.

If you're walking with God when promotion comes nothing can stop it.

Look pressure in the face. Make a decision and put the pressure back on people.

Some things take time. Because of God? No. Because of people.

All sin is downgrade and gravity, and all faith is a lifting place into the admiration of God. - Smith Wigglesworth

There is condemnation that comes to us if we know that we ought to be further on in the race than we are. - Smith Wigglesworth

Your ministry will never be bigger than your vision of Jesus. - Patty Hammond

Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.

Faith is the latchstring to God's Great Supply Souse.

If you go after souls, miracles will follow!

God specializes in things thought impossible!

What your hope is established on is what you're looking at!

Prayer never obtains anything from God unless faith is present. And again, faith never receives anything from God unless prayer makes a petition. - Kathryn Kulman

It is only through prayer that the soul can establish communion with its Creator, and it is only through faith that spiritual victories are won.

Prayer knocks at the door of grace while faith opens it.

Prayer makes a petition while faith presses through the multitudes to touch the hem of His garment and receives from His giving hand.

Prayer quotes the promises, while faith boldly proclaims the fulfillment of that promise.

If you believe in something you'll talk about it. For you can't help but to talk about what you believe in, whether it's good or bad. What you talk about is what you believe.

One of the fundamental requirements of Divine Healing: complete and unqualified expectancy that healing will take place

No matter how widely we may differ in life, we all come together at the grave!

A victorious Christian is a Christian that is determined to make it.

The Will: An act or process or experience of choice.

God can't confirm a choice unless we make it.

God is so big He fills the universe, but He's small enough to live in my heart.

Sometimes in discussing Bible truths it's like climbing a mountain. Well, which side is right? That depends which side of the mountain you're on.

Neglected opportunities brings regrets. So take advantage of opportunities.

I don't base my ministry on money; I base my ministry on helping people.

It's one thing to pray for the sick, its another thing to minister healing to the sick and it another thing to operate in the gifts of the Spirit.

If a scripture hurts you, read it until it does good. - Smith Wigglesworth

We determine the size of our God by our asking. We determine the size of our God by our believing.

God will change your destiny if you'll allow Him to.

When God appoints you, nobody can disappoint you!!!

If you think you're perfect, please stand up. It wont' take us long to show you where you're wrong.

I'd rather set my goals high and get half of them than set them low and get all of them.

Joy is the most unmistakable evidence of the presence of God in someone's life!

The Bible is so simple you have to find someone to help you misunderstand it.

It doesn't make any difference what you have done, it's what you do afterward that counts.

Never do anything that you don't want to do or that God didn't tell you to do.

He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep in order to gain what he cannot lose.

I believe in a topless heaven, a bottomless hell, eternal salvation, and everlasting damnation. - Charles Spurgeon

If your heart be as my heart give me your hand. - John Wesley

In all giving of our resources to the cause of God, we must remember that the value of the gift depends upon the motive of the giver. Read Ex. 25:2.

If you speak the truth you'll show forth righteousness but if you speak a lie you'll be deceived.

If you abide in me and my Words become who you are, you shall ask what you will and it shall be done unto you.

The definition of prayer is fellowshipping with the Father.

Faith is not something you have to get; faith is something God has already given you.

The compass of the leading of the Lord is many times manipulated by the magnet of the human will. (Like using a magnet to manipulate a compass) - Bro. Hagin

Joy is not the absence of suffering, but the presence of God.

Unbelief means a refusal to be persuaded more than it means an inability to believe.

Make God your only joy and He will give you what your heart desires.

If we accept at face value the words of Jesus in Mt. 18:1-14, as referring to children specifically (though principles may certainly apply to others as well), we must conclude that Jesus made the growth and development of children's faith a priority concern of the church, on a level with evangelism. Churches that relegate children's ministries to a low level of priority do so against the expressed will of Jesus. We need to reevaluate our programs to see if we are receiving children as we would receive Jesus Himself.

Do you want someone to take care of your child, or do you want your child to experience God?

True prosperity is the ability to use the power of God to meet any need in any realm.

Discipline is something we do for a child, not something we do to a child. Discipline is an act of love. Proper discipline always brings repentance not rebellion. There is a big difference between punishment and discipline.

The ministry is a means to an end, not an end in itself. This end is the qualitative and quantitative growth of the kingdom of God. God didn't call me to be in the ministry just so I could be in the ministry but so the body could increase in quality and quantity.

A lot of people want God to speak to them, then they don't listen to what He says. That's the reason He quits speaking to them.

The secret to the success of the Apostles ministries: Full of faith, full of power, using the supernatural instrument of divine compassion and soul travail.

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it is thinking of yourself less.

As much evidence of the "Big Bang Theory", as there is, it would be like placing a ton of dynamite in a junkyard, blowing it up and assembling a 747.

5 STEPS TO DEMON POSSESSION:
1. Regression from life, people, etc.
2. Depressed
3. Oppression (gloom, doom, agony)
4. Obsession (lusts, etc.)
5. Demon Possession

5 STEPS UP:
1. New Birth
2. Expression
3. Adoration (Love)
4. Communication with Heavenly Father on same level as friend
5. Divine Revelation (His revealing revelations) He's revealing Himself in new forms and new ways. (This is the life in the Spirit.)

Be selfish. Be utterly selfish for your own spiritual prosperity. Let nothing turn you aside. Have a one-track mind. (Prov. 4:25) Guard your speech and let your words be few - yea, be utterly selfish and concentrate on your progress in the spirit.

Let it be a fast of words, speaking only necessary words. This is your discipline. Bring your speech under rigid control, become master of it. Then thou shalt have joy unspeakable. - Grace Ryerson Roos

4 PROBLEMS IN MARRIAGE, WHICH EVERYTHING SURROUNDS:
1. Religion
2. Sex
3. Children
4. Money

Faith always has a good report. Doubt always has an evil report.

Let us care for the obedience; God will care for the blessing. Let my one thought as a Christian be how I can obey and please my God perfectly.

It is when I know who I am that all heaven is behind me backing what I do and say in the name of Jesus.

You can't take what a man does as doctrine unless it holds and conforms to the Word throughout the Bible.

God loves His people. He will show mercy and forgiveness before His wrath falls.

The moment Nehemiah began to do what he thought God had called him to do, he faced opposition. The guy that's not expecting trouble is the guy that has to pick himself up off the ground.

Fruit is something someone else can eat and taste and see that the Lord is good. So you cannot be rotten. They can see if you're ripe enough to eat. But even just standing there your leaves will be bright and healthy and everyone can see that you're living on good nourishment. It shall be clearly seen and easily seen that you are different.

The Secret Place does not change. It is stationary for God is stationary; He does not change. If any changing is being done, it's being done on our part.
If you are not walking with God you will trust everything but God.

Legalism adds a sign above the cross, which reads: "Necessary but not enough!"

The kingdom of God does not have any secret agents.

Jesus never ministered because He was the Son of God for He emptied Himself of that power. He ministered under the anointing.

You're not gonna get anybody healed, him believing he's gonna die, and you believing he's gonna live. There's no agreement.

Divorces are caused because of people choosing to remain hardened rather than forgiving and loving.

We're all equal no matter what we do. We're all the same body. No matter how long we've been in the body.

If you've got the love of God in your heart, you don't need any other commandment or law.

Clean up the spirit man and the outward man will take care of itself.

Communion is a reminder to us of what Jesus did for us, what He is doing for us, and what He will do for us throughout eternity.

If you know God will, then God's willing. If you doubt God's willing, then God won't.

Negative words affect how we think.

Many people are held back today because they are surrounded by so much unbelief.

I should have such a quest for excellence that everything I do, I do the best, with all I have. Do all that you do excellently. If it's worth doing, it worth doing right.

My faith is put into motion either by word or by action.

We cannot believe beyond actual knowledge. Faith begins where the will of God is known.

All that I am today and all that I have today is a result of what I said yesterday, or didn't say yesterday.

The world I live in is a result of how I made it. The faith I put forth framed it.

The limit is not on His willingness to give but on our ability to ask and our capacity to believe.

Pray the desire not the problem.

Faith will work in your heart even if you have doubt in your head.

Be quick to repent and forgive. Be quick to believe.

The prayer of faith always ends with the glad confession, "It's mine, I have it now."

Even when you doubt you still believe something. It's just the wrong thing.

People put up defense mechanisms to avoid getting hurt again yet inside they are still bruised and if they can't apply the healing power of God they stay bruised.

If you don't hunger, you won't be filled. Fight for that hunger.

Healing is a mercy.

Religious people are demanding.

Neither apostasy nor revival is predestined in the plan of God. Man is free to claim the promises of God or to draw back and fail to enter in, just as the children of Israel were free to enter Canaan but chose to remain in the wilderness.

Jesus is the life giving substance to dead individuals.

"I'm a Christian, I can do what I like." If you're sinning, you're not doing what you like; you're doing what sin likes. You are a servant to sin. You are copping out. If you are in sin, you are not free. Habits and pleasures have you all wrapped up.

Truth will set you free; untruth can put you in bondage.

Knowing and acting on the truth will make you free.

If I don't obey, it means I either don't love God or my love isn't matured yet to where it should be.

In order for prayer to work, it must be based on the word. Find scriptures that promise you what you're believing for.

The ascension of Christ is followed by the descension of the Spirit, and the descension of the Spirit is followed by the extension of the gospel. - Leon Tucker

Faith will bring deliverance within reach to us down here. Doubt and unbelief will put it off out yonder somewhere.

We shall be judged according to the truth of the Word of God.

When you know God, you either seek after the knowledge of Him or reject Him altogether and at that point you become foolish and your heart darkened.

God judges according to the works of the flesh if you are not born again. You must stand on human works, instead of the works of Christ. God will judge by His word and not how man thinks He will.

You reject the grace of God by judging people. By judging them, you're doing the same things they are. Judge the sin, not the person. Look beyond it.

God praises the man who is circumcised in the heart, not in the flesh. Man in the flesh can be praised by other men all he wants, but that gets him nowhere with God.

Look at the circumstances and put them up against the Word. The Word will see you through.

Once born again, we no longer face God's wrath, but are disciplined by His love.

We spend almost our entire lives in the mental and the physical realms.

Satan has no more dominion over the Christian than Pharaoh had after the children of Israel crossed over the Red Sea.

When you are out of fellowship, sin becomes the master. Evil is present but I determine who's in control.

Knowledge brings freedom.

Feeling is the voice of the body. Reason is the voice of the mind. Conscience is the voice of the spirit.

If I understand God's love it will radically affect my life.

You need to renew your mind before you can do the will of God. But you need to walk in holiness before you renew your mind.

There is no difference between a sinner and a carnal Christian in outward appearance. Sin keeps you from operating spiritually. The Holy Spirit will not speak if you are carnal.

Read all good books on faith and healing that you can and feed on that. - P.C. Nelson

If you wait till you need faith to get it, you're too late. - Smith Wigglesworth

Through your faith, you'll find your way out of any situation.

Ministry given to me is an act of God's mercy to me and the individuals to whom I will minister. It's not because of who I am or anything I've done.

We need to become so God conscious that we know He's always there looking at our hearts, because He is always looking.

Things that are seen are not the things that will satisfy!

To walk in the Spirit is to walk in holiness. It's a decision. I can walk in the fruit because I have the Holy Spirit.

If God's commendation is upon me and my ministry, it doesn't matter what I look like on the outside or whether or not I fit up to others standards - I will be used of God.

God creates the answer before the problem exists. I was called redeemed before sin was an issue.

Go to the cross, but don't stay there. Come on up to Pentecost, but don't stay there. Come on up and sit down! He's made us sit together!

It's up to me to develop the gift, but He is the One who gave it.

Faith is a transaction that you believe that you get.

Satan has no right over me unless I go over into the power of darkness and live there. Stay in the light for Satan has no right to invade the light.

If things aren't working out it's because someone's not living like they should.

If my light gets dim, I'll be out running around not knowing which way to go.

If you are in rebellion, you have submitted to the spirit of antichrist.

Unbelief means refusal to be persuaded more than it means inability to believe.

Rest is not rest from work, but rest in work.

The Secret Place is the place of the most boldness.

Something hoped for is not faith.

Hope is a favorable and confident expectation.

Faith comes from hearing the Word of God. Unbelief comes from hearing the theories of men.

Hope sets the goal for what we really like. Hope can't bring it to pass - faith does.

Faith is the title deed to God's provision.

When you are out of the Secret Place you are a moving target for the devil.

COMMUNION WITH GOD [top]

The world has yet to see what God will do with and for and through and in and by the man who is fully and wholly consecrated to Him. I will try my utmost to be that man. -Dwight L. Moody

“If your heart takes more pleasure in reading novels, or watching TV, or going to the movies, or talking to friends, rather than just sitting alone with God and embracing Him, sharing His cares and His burdens, weeping and rejoicing with Him, then how are you going to handle forever and ever in His presence...? You'd be bored to tears in heaven, if you're not ecstatic about God now!” -Keith Green

“ It seems to me that there are but few who really live with a passion for God-especially a passion just to be with Him. Today there is such a noise coming up before the throne of the Most High-the clamor of so-called praise, singing, and joyful shouting. But I wonder if the same people who love to sing and shout, loudly exclaiming the the praises of God, really have such an intense glory in their secret life with the Lord. When the meeting’s over and there’s no one there to listen except the only One who matters, do you still have that same passionate joy in your spirit, just to be alone with the Living God?” - Keith Green

“We must wake ourselves up! Or somebody else will take our place, and bear our cross, and thereby rob us of our crown.” -General William Booth

Meister Eckhart, a wise medieval spiritual director, once said, “God is at home; it is we who have gone out for a walk.” -Source unknown

“Closet communion needs time for the revelation of God’s presence. It is vain to say, ‘I have too much work to do to find time.’ You must find time or forfeit blessing. God knows how to save for you the time you sacredly keep for communion with Him.”

“All practical power over sin and over men depends on maintaining closet communion. Those who abide in the secret place with God show themselves mighty to conquer evil, and strong to work and to war for God. They are seers who read His secrets; they know His will; they are the meek whom He guides in judgment and teaches His way. They are His prophets who speak for Him to others, and even forecast things to come. They watch the signs of the times and discern His tokens and read His signals.” - A. T. Pierson

"Am I robbing God of time? How easy to do, and how impossible to repay! We have lost the sacred art of spending time with God, and nothing else can ever take its place. No repentance however deep, no restitution however costly, no sorrow however complete, can do away with the necessity for a daily time of sacred quiet, alone with God." (Keswick 1946) – Gordon M. Guinness

"All practical power over sin and over men depends on maintaining closet communion. Those who abide in the secret place with God show themselves mighty to conquer evil, and strong to work and to war for God. They are seers who read His secrets; they know His will; they are the meek whom He guides in judgment and teaches His way. They are His prophets who speak for Him to others, and even forecast things to come. They watch the signs of the times and discern His tokens and read His signals." - A. T. Pierson

"Our power in drawing others after the Lord mainly rests in our joy and communion with Him ourselves." - J. G. Bellett

"Live near to God, and so all things will appear to you little in comparison with eternal realities." - Robert Murray M’Cheyne

"On the mountains, torrents flow right along, cutting their own courses. But on the plains canals have to be dug out painfully by men so that the water might flow. So among those who live on the heights with God, the Holy Spirit makes its way through of its own accord, whereas those who devote little time to prayer and communion with God have to organize painfully." -Sadhu Sunder Singh

"A man who is intimate with God will never be intimidated by men." – Leonard Ravenhill

"All decays begin in the closet; no heart thrives with out much secret converse with God, and nothing will make amends for the want of it." - John Berridge

FAITH [top]
"Carnal reason is an enemy to faith: it is ever crossing and contradicting it. It will never be well with thee, Christian, so long as thou art swayed by carnal reason, and you rely more upon thy five senses, than upon the four Evangelists. As the body lives by breathing, so the soul lives by believing." - Thomas Brooks

"Do not we rest in our day too much on the arm of flesh? Cannot the same wonders be done now as of old? Do not the eyes of the Lord still run to and fro throughout the whole earth to show Himself strong on behalf of those who put their trust in Him? Oh, that God would give me more practical faith in Him! Where is now the Lord God of Elijah? He is waiting for Elijah to call on Him."
- James Gilmour of Mongolia

"It is well to get rid of the idea that faith is a matter of spiritual heroism only for a few select spirits. There are heroes of faith, but faith is not only for heroes. It is a matter of spiritual manhood. It is a matter of maturity." - P. T. Forsyth

"Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible."- Corrie ten Boom

We can bring hope into focus and push it with faith and your imagination will become reality.

Purity is vital to faith.

Faith never struggles, it rests.

From the time of the asking to the time of the receiving, faith sees no pitfalls.

All sin is downgrade and gravity, and all faith is a lifting place into the admiration of God. - Smith Wigglesworth

If you wait till you need faith to get it, you're too late. - Smith Wigglesworth

Great faith comes out of great tests and great trials. The great victories come out of great battles. - Smith Wigglesworth

FASTING [top]
"I find it a good thing to fast. I do not lay down rules for anyone in this matter, but I know it has been a good thing for me to go without meals to get time for prayer. So many say they have not sufficient time to pray. We think nothing of spending an hour or two in taking our meals." - D. E. Hoste

"We have found no means so much blessed to keep religion alive as FASTING and PRAYER." - Edward Payson

"Prayer is reaching out after the unseen; fasting is letting go of all that is seen and temporal. Fasting helps express, deepen, confirm the resolution that we are ready to sacrifice anything, even ourselves to attain what we seek for the kingdom of God." - Andrew Murray

HEALING [top]
Sickness and disease is the foul offspring of his father the devil and of his mother, sin. - John Alexander Dowie

HOLINESS [top]
There's a room in the Spirit where the flesh is not welcome! - Unknown

"This Pentecostal movement is something which God has started at high speed, but the faster we go the greater the need of holiness. The more power we have, the more we need to have every obstacle cleared out of the way. That which cannot be noticed in an old dead church can wreck a revival in a Pentecostal church. May God give us holiness with our Pentecost, for we surely need it. No revival can continue with the blessing of God upon it that does not have a high standard of holiness." – Donald Gee

"The Holy Spirit is the immediate source of all holiness. The missionary must above all things be a holy man. The ideal teacher of the Chinese is a holy man. " He is entirely sincere, and perfect in love. He is magnanimous, generous, benign, and full of forbearance. He is pure in heart, free from selfishness, and never swerves from the path of duty in his conduct. He is deep and active like a fountain, sending forth his virtues in due season. He is seen, and men revere him; he speaks, and men believe him; he acts, and men are gladdened by him. He possesses all heavenly virtues. He is one with Heaven." – Griffith John

"I am convinced that no Christian teacher can be a great spiritual power in whom this ideal is not embodied and manifested in an eminent degree. He must be more than a good man; he must be a holy man, exhibiting the vigor of every right purpose, and the intensity of every devout affection. He must be a man full of the Holy Ghost, and the divinity within must energize mightily through him. He must be a man who will take time, not only to master the language and literature of this people, but also to be holy. It is not ourselves-our poor selves-the Chinese want to see, but God in us" – Griffith John

"The neglect of prayer is a grand hindrance to holiness." - John Wesley

Worldly people sometimes complain, with reason, that "religious" persons, so-called, are not so amiable and unselfish and good-natured as others who make no profession of religion. Sound doctrine is useless if it is not accompanied by a holy life. It is worse then useless; it does positive harm. It is despised by keen-sighted and shrewd men of the world, as an unreal and hollow thing, and brings religion into contempt. It is my firm impression that we want a thorough revival about Scriptural holiness. - J. C. Ryle (1816 - 1900)

"Why does the Church stay indoors? They have a theology that has dwindled into a philosophy, in which there is no thrill of faith, no terror of doom and no concern for souls. Unbelief has put out the fires of passion, and worldliness garlands the altar of sacrifice with the tawdry glitter of unreality. The Holy Ghost cannot conquer the world with unbelief, nor can He save the world with a worldly Church. He calls for a crusade, a campaign, and an adventure of saving passion. For this enterprise He wants a separated, sanctified and sacrificial people." – Samuel Chadwick

“God’s holiness is not simply the best we know infinitely bettered. We know nothing like the divine holiness. It stands apart, unique, unapproachable, incomprehensible and unattainable. The natural man is blind to it. He may fear God’s power and admire his wisdom, but His holiness he cannot even imagine.” - A.W.Tozer

The invasion of the Church by the world is a menace to the extension of Christ's Kingdom. In all ages conformity to the world by Christians has resulted in lack of spiritual life and a consequent lack of spiritual vision and enterprise. A secularized or self-centered Church can never evangelize the world.” - John R. Mott

“If missions languish, it is because the whole life of godliness is feeble. The command to go everywhere and preach to everybody is not obeyed, until the will is lost by self-surrender in the will of God. There is little right giving because there is little right living, and because of the lack of sympathetic contact with God in holiness of heart, there is a lack of effectual contact with him at the Throne of Grace. Living, praying, giving and going will always be found together, and a low standard in one means a general debility in the whole spiritual being.” – Arthur T. Pierson

The spirit of prayer should rule our spirits and our conduct. The spirit of the prayer chamber must control our lives, or the hour in the prayer closet will be dull and sapless. Always praying in our spirits, always acting in the spirit of praying-these make our praying strong. The spirit of every moment is that which imparts strength to the communion of the prayer closet. It is what we are outside of the prayer closet that gives victory or brings defeat to the prayer closet. If the spirit of the world prevails in our non-closet hours, the spirit of the world will prevail in our closet hours, and that will be a vain and idle farce. - E.M. Bounds

We must live for God out of the prayer closet if we want to meet God in the prayer closet. We must bless God with praying lives if we want to have God's blessing in the prayer closet. We must do God's will in our lives if we want to have God's ear in the prayer closet. We must listen to God's voice in public if we want God to listen to our voice in private. God must have our hearts out of the prayer closet if we want to have God's presence in the prayer closet. If we want to have God in the prayer closet, God must have us out of the prayer closet. There is no way of praying to God, except by living to God. The prayer closet is not a confessional, simply, but the hour of holy communion, of high and sweet communication, and of intense intercession.

It makes much difference whether we come to God as a criminal or a child; to be pardoned or to be approved; to settle scores or to be embraced; for punishment or for favor. Our praying, to be strong, must be buttressed by holy living. The name of Christ must be honored by our lives before it will honor our intercessions. The life of faith perfects the prayer of faith.

Our lives not only give color to our praying, but they give body to it as well. Bad living leads inevitably to bad praying, and we pray feebly because we live feebly. The stream of praying cannot rise higher than the fountain of living. The force of the prayer closet is made up of the energy that flows from the confluent streams of living. Therefore, any feebleness of living will throw its faintness into our prayer chambers. We cannot talk to God strongly when we have not lived for God strongly. The prayer closet cannot be made holy to God when the life has not been holy to God.

"When HOLINESS loses its sweetness it is a fierce thing to come in contact with." – Frank Bartleman

MINISTRY [top]
“The way to stimulate and provoke others unto good works is to strive to outrun them in the race. The way to rebuke the cold and indifferent is to be always full of zeal and ‘abounding in the work of the Lord’ yourself. Men will be much more ready to answer a call to come up to your level, than a command to advance beyond you.” - Record of Christian Work, May 1909

“A sermon in shoes is often more eloquent than a sermon on paper.” - Theodore L. Cuyler

"We give ourselves to prayer. We preach a Gospel that saves to the uttermost, and witness to its power. We do not argue about worldliness; we witness. We do not discuss philosophy; we preach the Gospel. We do not speculate about the destiny of sinners; we pluck them as brands from the burning. We ask no man's patronage. We beg no man's money. We fear no man's frown…Let no man join us who is afraid, and we want none but those who are saved, sanctified and aflame with the fire of the Holy Ghost." – Samuel Chadwick

"We need a baptism of clear seeing. We desperately need seers who can see through the mist--Christian leaders with prophetic vision. Unless they come soon it will be too late for this generation. And if they do come we will no doubt crucify a few of them in the name of our worldly orthodoxy." -A. W. Tozer

"Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not whether they be clergymen or laymen, they alone will shake the gates of Hell and set up the kingdom of Heaven upon Earth." - John Wesley

"We must wake ourselves up! Or somebody else will take our place, and bear our cross, and thereby rob us of our crown."- William Booth

"We must feel toward our people as a father toward his children; yea, the most tender love of a mother must not surpass ours. We must even travail in birth, till Christ be formed in them. They should see that we care for no outward thing, neither liberty, nor honor, nor life, in comparison to their salvation... When the people see that you truly love them, they will hear anything from you...Oh therefore, see that you feel a tender love for your people in your hearts, and let them perceive it in your speech and conduct. Let them see that you spend and are spent for their sakes." - Richard Baxter

"A church in the land without the Spirit is rather a curse than a blessing. If you have not the Spirit of God, Christian worker, remember that you stand in somebody else's way; you are a fruitless tree standing where a fruitful tree might grow."– C. H. Spurgeon

"There are a lot of Christians who are halfway fellows. They stand in the door, holding on to the Church with one hand while they play with the toys of the world with the other. They are in the doorway and we can't bring sinners in. And, until we get some of God's people right, we cannot hope to get sinners regenerated. Now they always accuse me of carrying around a sledge hammer with which to pound the church members. Yes sir, I do pound them, every time I come down, I knock one of the halfway fellows out of the doorway, and every time I knock one out I get a sinner in." - Mordecai Ham

"Many do not recognize the fact as they ought, that Satan has got men fast asleep in sin and that it is his great device to keep them so. He does not care what we do if he can do that. We may sing songs about the sweet by and by, preach sermons and say prayers until doomsday, and he will never concern himself about us, if we don't wake anybody up. But if we awake the sleeping sinner he will gnash on us with his teeth. This is our work - to wake people up." - Catherine Booth

"Spirit filled souls are ablaze for God. They love with a love that glows. They serve with a faith that kindles. They serve with a devotion that consumes. They hate sin with fierceness that burns. They rejoice with a joy that radiates. Love is perfected in the fire of God." - Samuel Chadwick

"How is it that the soul being of such value, and God so great, eternity so near and yet we are so little moved?" - William Bramwell

"Many are willing that Christ should be something, but few will consent that Christ should be everything." - Alexander Moody Stuart

"Our method of proclaiming salvation is this: to point out to every heart the loving Lamb, who died for us, and although He was the Son of God, offered Himself for our sins ... by the preaching of His blood, and of His love unto death, even the death of the cross, never, either in discourse or in argument, to digress even for a quarter of an hour from the loving Lamb: to name no virtue except in Him, and from Him and on His account,-to preach no commandment except faith in Him; no other justification but that He atoned for us; no other sanctification but the privilege to sin no more; no other happiness but to be near Him, to think of Him and do His pleasure; no other self denial but to be deprived of Him and His blessings; no other calamity but to displease Him; no other life but in Him." - Count Zinzendorf

"The very truths that gave birth to the Pentecostal movement are today generally rejected as too strong." – Frank Bartleman

"Whenever you touch reality in the spiritual realm, you touch things that are so vital that any normal, healthy person cannot fail to be moved. If we have today such ministry in our churches that men and women cannot be moved, there is something wrong with our preaching." - Donald Gee

"All God’s giants have been weak men, who did great things for God because they believed that God would be with them." - Hudson Taylor

Could a mariner sit idle if he heard the drowning cry?
Could a doctor sit in comfort and just let his patients die?
Could a fireman sit idle, let men burn and give no hand?
Can you sit at ease in Zion with the world around you DAMNED? - Leonard Ravenhill

"No man is ever fully accepted until he has, first of all, been utterly rejected." - Author unknown

"Keep us little and unknown, prized and loved by God alone." – Charles Wesley

"The only saving faith is that which casts itself on God for life or death." -Martin Luther

"Tearless hearts can never be the heralds of the Passion." - J. H. Jowett

"What are Christians put into the world for except to do the impossible in the strength of God." - General S. C. Armstrong

"God loves with a great love the man whose heart is bursting with a passion for the IMPOSSIBLE." - William Booth

"I have found that there are three stages in every great work of God: first, it is impossible, then it is difficult, then it is done." - Hudson Taylor

"We never test the resources of God until we attempt the IMPOSSIBLE." - F. B. Meyer

"Until we reach for the IMPOSSIBLE through fervent, faith-filled prayer, we will NEVER fulfill our created purpose!" - David Smithers

“Today comes but once, and comes never to return. We hope it will come again tomorrow; but it does not. It is gone forever, with its inexhaustible possibilities, privileges and responsibilities.” – Record of Christian Work, October 1908

"The nature of Christ's salvation is woefully misrepresented by the present-day evangelist. He announces a Savior from hell rather than a Savior from sin. And that is why so many are fatally deceived, for there are multitudes who wish to escape the Lake of fire who have no desire to be delivered from their carnality and worldliness." - A. W. Pink

Always give your spirit an opportunity to grow by giving it the first chance to answer each problem or question before your thoughts or body gives their opinion. – Kenneth E. Hagin

The Spirit Himself is not small, but might be small on His influence you allow in your life. – Unknown

When God calls you to a vision it's yours whether it looks like it or not. – Unknown

Where the Holy Ghost is not in manifestation I doubt that He is there. - Smith Wigglesworth

When man comes to recognize the dominance of the spirit, he'll live in the realm of the supernatural without effort. He's learned to trust in God. – Kenneth E. Hagin

When we make adjustments of conscience to accommodate momentary convenience, we tear down the foundations of character. – Unknown

Strong convictions come from a sensitive conscience enlightened by right beliefs. When we tamper with conscience it's like messing with a compass and we get off course. – Kenneth E. Hagin

If you'll walk in the power of the Word you will defeat the natural, whereas if you try to do things in the natural you will defeat the power of God. – Unknown

You can so live in the presence of God that immediately when Satan's powers present themselves, you shall discern them. – Unknown

The most staggering condition of helplessness which could ever be brought before you is your chance for God to use you. – Unknown

It's possible, it's easy, because God is big. - T.L. Osborn

Any dedicated man is a misunderstood person. - Lester Sumerall

Worry! If it continues, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained. – Unknown

The call of God is like fire, it will consume you. – Unknown

There is condemnation that comes to us if we know that we ought to be further on in the race than we are. - Smith Wigglesworth

Your ministry will never be bigger than your vision of Jesus. - Patty Hammond

If a scripture hurts you, read it until it does good. - Smith Wigglesworth

The moment Nehemiah began to do what he thought God had called him to do, he faced opposition. The guy that's not expecting trouble is the guy that has to pick himself up off the ground. – Unknown

The Secret Place does not change. It is stationary for God is stationary; He does not change. If any changing is being done, it's being done on our part. – Unknown

"A man set on fire is an apostle of his age. And the only one who can kindle the spark of light and fire on the hearth where it has died down is He who has revealed Himself as the God of fire, our Lord Jesus Christ. 'Our God is a consuming fire'...Tell me, is your ministry a burning and shining light, or a smoking wick, slowly dying out to ashes? ...It is a strange custom that we should supply a minister with a glass of water; if only we could supply him with a bonfire in the pulpit, a spiritual bonfire. We need the dynamic of a flaming ministry that will set the Church on fire."
- Samuel M. Zwemer (Keswick 1937)

"Do not be satisfied with as much Christianity as will only ease your conscience." - J. B. Stoney

"By the time the average Christian gets his temperature up to normal, everybody thinks he has a FEVER!" - Watchman Nee

"Important as it is that we recognize God working in us, I would yet warn against an over preoccupation with the thought. It is a sure road to sterile passivity. God will not hold us responsible to understand the mysteries of election, predestination and the divine sovereignty. The best and safest way to deal with these truths is to raise our eyes to God and in deepest reverence say, ‘Oh Lord Thou knowest.’ Those things belong to the deep and mysterious Profound of God's omniscience. Prying into them may make theologians, but it will never make saints." – A. W. Tozer

MISSIONS/EVANGELISM [top]
"The Primary qualification for a missionary is not love for souls, as we so often hear, but love for Christ." - Vance Havner

"Go for souls and go for the worst." – William Booth

"If the church would only awaken to her responsibility of intercession, we could well evangelize the world in a short time. It is not God's plan that the world be merely evangelized ultimately. It should be evangelized in every generation. There should be a constant gospel witness in every corner of the world so that no sinner need close his eyes in death without hearing the gospel, the good news of salvation through Christ." -T. A. Hegre

"Christ is a Savior for those realizing something of the exceeding sinfulness of sin, who feel the awful burden of it on their conscience, who loathe themselves for it, who long to be freed from its terrible dominion; and a Savior for no others." - A. W. Pink
All spirits cry out, they do not lie dormant. If they are not crying out to God, they are crying out somewhere, to something. – Unknown

If you go after souls, miracles will follow! – Unknown

"’Go ye’ is as much a part of Christ's Gospel as ‘Come unto Me.’ You are not even a Christian until you have honestly faced your responsibility in regard to the carrying of the Gospel to the ends of the earth. What is your part in that great task?" – J. Stuart Holden

"The Holy Spirit is the source of spiritual unity! He is the Fount of all true joy! We as missionaries need the fullness of this joy. Without it our work will be a burden to us, and we shall toil on with the hearts of slaves; and the hearts of slaves are never strong."– Griffith John

"If you want the Kingdom speeded, go out and speed it yourselves. Only obedience rationalizes prayer. Only Missions can redeem your intercessions from insincerity." - William Carey

” Whenever, in any century, whether in a single heart or in a company of believers, there has been a fresh effusion of the Spirit, there has followed inevitably a fresh endeavor in the work of evangelizing the world.” - A. J. Gordon

“Raymund Lull sought in vain for the sympathy of popes and prelates in his heroic missionary project, and finally had to go forth as a solitary and unsupported herald of the cross among the Muslims. Today this man's grace and apostleship are so fully recognized that historians of missions ask not whether he heard the voice of the Holy Spirit, but whether he was not almost the only one who heard it, in that dreary and unspiritual age.” – A. J. Gordon

“The astonishing missionary advance at the close of the eighteenth century and the onset of the nineteenth was a direct consequence of the Evangelical Awakening.” – A. Skevington Wood

“You have nothing to do but to save souls. Therefore spend and be spent in this work. And go not only to those that need you, but to those that need you most…It is not your business to preach so many times, and to take care of this or that society; but to save as many souls as you can; to bring as many sinners as you possibly can to repentance.”
– John Wesley

“Perhaps if there were more of that intense distress for souls that leads to tears, we should more frequently see the results we desire. Sometimes it may be that while we are complaining of the hardness of the hearts of those we are seeking to benefit, the hardness of our own hearts and our feeble apprehension of the solemn reality of eternal things may be the true cause of our want of success.” -James Hudson Taylor

“Oh, to realize that souls, precious, never dying souls, are perishing all around us, going out into the blackness of darkness and despair, eternally lost, and yet to feel no anguish, shed no tears, know no travail! How little we know of the compassion of Jesus!" - Oswald J. Smith

"A heart ready to melt at the sight of human suffering and need is necessary to successful soul-winning...Where there is no real soul-burden for sinners, there will be no revival. The early Church travailed in pain for the souls of dying men." - J. W. Mahood

"How long shall this fearful ruin of souls continue? Ought we not to make an effort to save China in this generation? Is God's power limited? Is the efficacy of prayer limited? This grand achievement is in the hands of the Church… We want China emancipated from the thralldom of sin in this generation. It is possible. Our Lord has said, ‘According to your faith be it unto you.' The Church of God can do it, if she be only faithful to her great commission." - General Conference of the Protestant Missionaries of China (1877)

"Some reader may urge - No one generation has been actually evangelized. True; yet that is no proof of its impossibility; and the fact that past generations of Christians failed to accomplish their task, or rather, never tried (except perhaps in the first century, and even that is very doubtful), is no reason why we should shrink from ours." - Eugene Stock

"I feel now, that Arabia could easily be evangelized within the next thirty years if it were not for the wicked selfishness of Christians." – Samuel M. Zwemer

"I have said that there is nothing in the world or the Church, except it’s disobedience, to render the evangelization of the world in this generation an impossibility…" – Robert E. Speer

"China for Christ in this generation - Why not? In this generation, what doubt is there that China will be swept irresistibly into the stream of the world's competition? The West will not wait till a later generation. Why should the Church wait till a later generation? How splendidly equipped the Church is today to win not China only, but the world for Christ in one generation!" - J. C. Garritt

"It is possible to evangelize the world in this generation, if the Church will but do her duty. The trouble is not with the heathen. A dead Church will prevent it, if it is prevented. Why should it not be accomplished? God will have all men to be saved and come unto the knowledge of the truth. The resources of the Church are boundless. Let the will of the Church be brought into line with the will of God, and nothing will be found to be impossible. May God grant it!" - Griffith John

"If we go about apologizing for speaking to people of the things of God, we must not be very much surprised if they catch our timidity and they feel awkward and we feel awkward. There is a certain shyness and awkwardness about us when we go to tell men and women of the things of eternal life, which react upon them until they become nervous and awkward too." –Mildred Cable

"God provides the men and women needed for each generation." –Mildred Cable

"This generation of Christians is responsible for this generation of souls on the earth!" - Keith Green

"We are in China in obedience to the command of our Lord; and the purpose of our Mission is to disciple and make Christians of this great nation.. . This is a great spiritual work, and to secure success in it we need the abiding presence of the Spirit, and through the Spirit such a full baptism of power as will perfectly fit each one of us for the special work which God has given him to do." – Griffith John

"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." - Charles Spurgeon"

PRAYER, REVIVAL & MISSIONS [top]
"If you want the Kingdom speeded, go out and speed it yourselves. Only obedience rationalizes prayer. Only Missions can redeem your intercessions from insincerity." - William Carey

“There is need of a great revival of spiritual life, of truly fervent devotion to our Lord Jesus, of entire consecration to His service. It is only in a church in which this spirit of revival has at least begun, that there is any hope of radical change in the relation of the majority of our Christian people to mission work.” – Andrew Murray

” Whenever, in any century, whether in a single heart or in a company of believers, there has been a fresh effusion of the Spirit, there has followed inevitably a fresh endeavor in the work of evangelizing the world.” - A. J. Gordon

“The Revival of 1859 helped to lay the foundations of the modem international and interdenominational missionary structure…Every revival of religion in the homelands is felt within a decade in the foreign mission-fields, and the records of missionary enterprises and the pages of missionary biography following I860 are full of clearest evidence of the stimulating effect of the Revival throughout the world.” –J. Edwin Orr

“The astonishing missionary advance at the close of the eighteenth century and the onset of the nineteenth was a direct consequence of the Evangelical Awakening.” – A. Skevington Wood

"Repentance unto life is a saving grace, whereby a sinner, out of a true sense of his sin, and apprehension of the mercy of God in Christ, doth, with grief and hatred of his sin, turn from it unto God, with full purpose of, and endeavor after new obedience.” -The Westminster Shorter Catechism

“If missions languish, it is because the whole life of godliness is feeble. The command to go everywhere and preach to everybody is not obeyed, until the will is lost by self-surrender in the will of God. There is little right giving because there is little right living, and because of the lack of sympathetic contact with God in holiness of heart, there is a lack of effectual contact with him at the Throne of Grace. Living, praying, giving and going will always be found together, and a low standard in one means a general debility in the whole spiritual being.” – Arthur T. Pierson

"Oh, for closest communion with God, till soul and body, head, face, and heart -shine with Divine brilliancy! But oh! for a holy ignorance of our shining!" - Robert Murray M'Cheyme

“Compassion costs. It is easy enough to argue, criticize and condemn, but redemption is costly, and comfort draws from the deep. Brains can argue, but It takes heart to comfort.” –Samuel Chadwick

“How careful we should be lest we misrepresent a real work of grace because of some things which occasionally may accompany it! When Whitefield was once preaching in Boston, the place was so packed that the gallery was thought to be giving way, and there was a panic in which several persons were trampled to death. But it would be unfair and unreasonable to blame the revival for this… We do not despise the great river because of the sticks and straws that may occasionally float on its surface.” – William Alexander McKay (1890)

“In every revival there is a reemphasis of the Church's missionary character. Men return to Calvary, and the world is seen afresh through the eyes of Christ. The infinite compassion of Christ fills the heart, and the passion evoked by Calvary demands the whole wide world as the fruit of His sacrifice.” –John Shearer

“Some people do not like to hear much of repentance; but I think it is so necessary that if I should die in the pulpit, I would desire to die preaching repentance, and if out of the pulpit I would desire to die practicing it.” -Matthew Henry

“Depend upon it, if you are bent on prayer, the devil will not leave you alone. He will molest you, tantalize you, block you, and will surely find some hindrances, big or little or both. And we sometimes fail because we are ignorant of his devices…I do not think he minds our praying about things if we leave it at that. What he minds, and opposes steadily, is the prayer that prays on until it is prayed through, assured of the answer.” - Mary Warburton Booth

“How we have prayed for a Revival - we did not care whether it was old-fashioned or not - what we asked for was that it should be such that would cleanse and revive His children and set them on fire to win others.” - Mary Warburton Booth

“I myself, for instance, am not especially gifted, and am shy by nature, but my gracious and merciful God and Father inclined Himself to me, and when I was weak in faith He strengthened me while I was still young. He taught me in my helplessness to rest on Him, and to pray even about little things in which another might have felt able to help himself.” - James Hudson Taylor

"Do not have your concert first, and then tune your instrument afterwards. Begin the day with the Word of God and prayer, and get first of all into harmony with Him.” –James Hudson Taylor

“ Then I set my face toward the Lord God to make request by prayer and supplications, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes. And I prayed to the LORD my God, and made confession, and said, "O Lord, great and awesome God, who keeps His covenant and mercy with those who love Him, and with those who keep His commandments, we have sinned and committed iniquity, we have done wickedly and rebelled, even by departing from Your precepts and Your judgments.” –Daniel 9:3-5
“Our sufficiency is of God. Difficulties melt in His presence. In Him are those mighty, overcoming energies, which accomplish the possible and the impossible with equal readiness…The real resources are with Him for the evangelizing and the redeeming of the world. But He has not been able to do ‘many mighty works’ in the non-Christian lands, because of our unbelief as a Church. We have not possessed our possessions. God has been waiting to be honored by the faith of a generation that would call upon Him for really large outpourings of His power.” –J. Lovell Murray (SVM)

“God has honored this generation as He has never honored a generation before. He has thrown dazzling opportunities before it. He has flung wide open for it the doors of access to all parts of His world and has laid at its feet every possible advantage and facility.” -J. Lovell Murray (SVM)

“Ah, prayer turns trembling saints into great victors! There is no such thing as surrender, or even discouragement, to a man who dwells in the secret place of the Most High and abides under the shadow of the Almighty.” –Henry W. Frost

“I have seen many men work without praying, though I have never seen any good come out of it; but I have never seen a man pray without working.” - James Hudson Taylor

“The men that will change the colleges and seminaries here represented are the men that will spend the most time alone with God…It takes time for the fires to burn. It takes time for God to draw near and for us to know that He is there. It takes time to assimilate His truth. You ask me, How much time? I do not know. I know it means time enough to forget time.” - John R. Mott

"I am convinced that nothing less than a mighty Holy Ghost revival will awaken us to a sense of our great privilege and responsibility with regard to the missionary challenge and world evangelization." - Clifford Filer

"And we ourselves are 'saved to save'-we are made to give-to let everything go if only we may have more to give. The pebble takes in all the rays of light that fall on it, but the diamond flashes them out again; every little facet is a means, not simply of drinking more in, but of giving more out." -Lillias Trotter

"Yes, there lies before us a beautiful possible life-one that shall have a passion for giving: that shall be pored forth to God-spent out for man: that shall be consecrated for the hardest work and the darkest sinners." -Lillias Trotter

“Let Christians remember, that in a season of revival as well as in a season of coldness, the evidence of piety is to be sought in the fruits of the Spirit. And let sinners remember that no degree of attendance on means, no degree of fervor, can be substituted for repentance of sin and faith in the Savior..." -William B. Sprague

“ I am born for God only. Christ is nearer to me than father, or mother, or sister - a near relation, a more affectionate Friend; and I rejoice to follow Him, and to love Him. Blessed Jesus! Thou art all I want -a forerunner to me in all I ever shall go through as a Christian, a minister, or a missionary." -Henry Martyn

“If your heart takes more pleasure in reading novels, or watching TV, or going to the movies, or talking to friends, rather than just sitting alone with God and embracing Him, sharing His cares and His burdens, weeping and rejoicing with Him, then how are you going to handle forever and ever in His presence...? You'd be bored to tears in heaven, if you're not ecstatic about God now!” -Keith Green

“Does it grieve you my friends, that the name of God is being taken in vain and desecrated? Does it grieve you that we are living in a godless age...But, we are living in such an age and the main reason we should be praying about revival is that we are anxious to see God's name vindicated and His glory manifested. We should be anxious to see something happening that will arrest the nations, all the peoples, and cause them to stop and to think again.” -Martyn Lloyd-Jones

“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.” -C. H. Spurgeon

“Revivals begin with God's own people; the Holy Spirit touches their heart anew, and gives them new fervor and compassion, and zeal, new light and life, and when He has thus come to you, He next goes forth to the valley of dry bones…Oh, what responsibility this lays on the Church of God! If you grieve Him away from yourselves, or hinder His visit, then the poor perishing world suffers sorely!” –Andrew A. Bonar

“In the Irish Revival of 1859, people became so weak that they could not get back to their homes. Men and women would fall by the wayside and would be found hours later pleading with God to save their souls. They felt that they were slipping into hell and that nothing else in life mattered but to get right with God... To them eternity meant everything. Nothing else was of any consequence. They felt that if God did not have mercy on them and save them, they were doomed for all time to come." - Oswald J. Smith

“We Christians too often substitute prayer for playing the game. Prayer is good; but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is nothing but a blatant hypocrisy, a despicable Pharisaism...To your knees, man! and to your Bible! Decide at once! Don't hedge! Time flies! Cease your insults to God, quit consulting flesh and blood. Stop your lame, lying, and cowardly excuses. Enlist! " - C. T. Studd

"The love-slave has no pleasure like that of serving his master. this is his joy, and his very "crown of rejoicing." The love-slave is altogether at his master's service. He is all eyes for his master. He watches. He is all ears for his master. He listens. His mind is willing. His hands are ready. His feet are swift to sit at the master's feet and look into his loved face, to listen to his voice and catch his words; to run on his errands, to do his bidding, to share his privations and sorrows, to watch at his door, to guard his honor, to praise his name, to defend his person, to seek and promote his interests, and, if needs be, to die for his dear sake; this is the joy of the slave of love, and this he counts his perfect freedom." -Samuel L. Brengle

"My Lord was pleased to die for my sins; why should I not be glad to give up my poor life out of love for Him." -Girolamo Savanarola

"I feel very happy since the Lord called me to step out in faith, and I obeyed. The Lord is our inexhaustible treasure." -Pandita Ramabai

“Perhaps if there were more of that intense distress for souls that leads to tears, we should more frequently see the results we desire. Sometimes it may be that while we are complaining of the hardness of the hearts of those we are seeking to benefit, the hardness of our own hearts and our feeble apprehension of the solemn reality of eternal things may be the true cause of our want of success.” -James Hudson Taylor

“This season of waiting is always an essential qualification for successful service. God would have His children realize the utter inadequacy of all human means to accomplish His gigantic purposes, that thus the praise and glory might be afterwards ascribed exclusively to Him. The disciples were given ten days to review the field of battle, to recognize the difficulties that bristled round on every side, to measure the adversaries' strength, and to understand their own helplessness and weakness; thus were they driven to their knees in earnest, anxious prayer. Then came the answer. The promise was fulfilled, and the power stored up in the almighty Savior was brought down to His disciples in the person of the Holy Spirit.” -Hugh D. Brown

“The chief danger of the Church today is that it is trying to get on the same side as the world, instead of turning the world upside down. Our Master expects us to accomplish results, even if they bring opposition and conflict. Anything is better than compromise, apathy, and paralysis. God give to us an intense cry for the old-time power of the Gospel and the Holy Ghost!” -A. B. Simpson

“It is not the bee's touching on the flowers that gathers the honey, but her abiding for a time upon them, and drawing out the sweet. It is not he that reads most, but he that meditates most on divine truth, that will prove the choicest, strongest Christian.” -Joseph Hall

“The branch of the vine does not worry, and toil, and rush here to seek for sunshine, and there to find rain. No; it rests in union and communion with the vine; and at the right time, and in the right way, is the right fruit found on it. Let us so abide in the Lord Jesus.” -James Hudson Taylor

“The reason why many fail in battle is because they wait until the hour of battle. The reason why others succeed is because they have gained their victory on their knees long before the battle came...Anticipate your battles; fight them on your knees before temptation comes, and you will always have victory.” - R. A. Torrey

“The way to stimulate and provoke others unto good works is to strive to outrun them in the race. The way to rebuke the cold and indifferent is to be always full of zeal and ‘abounding in the work of the Lord’ yourself. Men will be much more ready to answer a call to come up to your level, than a command to advance beyond you.” - Record of Christian Work, May 1909

“A sermon in shoes is often more eloquent than a sermon on paper.” - Theodore L. Cuyler

“Closet communion needs time for the revelation of God’s presence. It is vain to say, ‘I have too much work to do to find time.’ You must find time or forfeit blessing. God knows how to save for you the time you sacredly keep for communion with Him.” – A. T. Pierson

“Today comes but once, and comes never to return. We hope it will come again tomorrow; but it does not. It is gone forever, with its inexhaustible possibilities, privileges and responsibilities.” – Record of Christian Work, October 1908

“Elijah on Carmel did not only pray; he kept his eyes open to see the rising cloud.” – Theodore L. Cuyler

“With some men it would seem, if they could control God's operations and manipulate His actions they might tolerate a revival; but to allow God a free hand, fills them with righteous indignation and horror. If only God would consent to become an 'ecclesiastic' and respect their dignity and decorum and beautiful order of service and ways of running the Church, they might condescend to have a revival.” – William P. Nicholson

“To arouse one man or woman to the tremendous power of prayer for others, is worth more than the combined activity of a score of average Christians.” - A. J. Gordon
"I would rather train twenty men to pray, than a thousand to preach; - A minister's highest mission ought to be to teach his people to pray." -H. MacGregor

"Are you living for the things you are praying for?" - Austin Phelps

“Oh, to realize that souls, precious, never dying souls, are perishing all around us, going out into the blackness of darkness and despair, eternally lost, and yet to feel no anguish, shed no tears, know no travail! How little we know of the compassion of Jesus!" - Oswald J. Smith

“Wise leaders should have known that the human heart cannot exist in a vacuum. If Christians are forbidden to enjoy the wine of the Spirit they will turn to the wine of the flesh....Christ died for our hearts and the Holy Spirit wants to come and satisfy them." - A. W. Tozer

“A prayerless man is proud and independent, and any church that neglects corporate prayer is sadly no better. Only God's humble and needy children take the time to pray. Everyone else is just going through the motions and naively trusting in their own strength!” –David Smithers

"We need a baptism of clear seeing. We desperately need seers who can see through the mist--Christian leaders with prophetic vision. Unless they come soon it will be too late for this generation. And if they do come we will no doubt crucify a few of them in the name of our worldly orthodoxy." -A. W. Tozer

"The time factor in prayer is very important. In the exercise of prayer God is not tied to our clocks. Neither is He at the other end of the phone to receive and answer our two-minute calls. It takes time to know the mind of God, to shut out the material things of earth and to be wholly abandoned." -Hugh C. C. McCullough

"When we get a glimpse of the worth of a soul, and begin to realize that we stand between lost men and Heaven or Hell, then we shall have real concern and the Lord will hear our prayers of intercession." - J. W. Mahood

"Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not whether they be clergymen or laymen, they alone will shake the gates of Hell and set up the kingdom of Heaven upon Earth." - John Wesley

"A heart ready to melt at the sight of human suffering and need is necessary to successful soul-winning...Where there is no real soul-burden for sinners, there will be no revival. The early Church travailed in pain for the souls of dying men." - J. W. Mahood

"He can do all things who prays well. All soul-winners have conquered on their knees. Wherever the secret of prevailing prayer is found, something supernatural will come to pass." - G. F. Oliver

"No system of doctrine, preaching and worship which fails to develop prayer, faith, spiritual labor, and success in converting souls from sin, can long have the face to claim to be the religion of Jesus Christ!" -William W. Patton

"The days in which we live are days of great opportunity and of grave responsibility, and a second-hand religion is not good enough for times such as these. They demand that we should always be at our best if we are to seize our opportunities and manfully shoulder our responsibilities."- J. A. Broadbelt

"The true man of God is heartsick, grieved at the worldliness of the Church...grieved at the toleration of sin in the Church, grieved at the prayerlessness in the Church. He is disturbed that the corporate prayer of the Church no longer pulls down the strongholds of the devil." - Leonard Ravenhill

"There are different kinds of fire; there is false fire. No one knows this better than we do, but we are not such fools as to refuse good bank notes because there are false ones in circulation; and although we see here and there manifestations of what appears to us to be nothing more than mere earthly fire, we none the less prize and value, and seek for the genuine fire which comes from the altar of the Lord."
- William Booth

"We must wake ourselves up! Or somebody else will take our place, and bear our cross, and thereby rob us of our crown."- William Booth

"We must continue in prayer if we are to get an outpouring of the Spirit. Christ says there are some things we shall not get, unless we pray and fast, yes, "prayer and fasting." We must control the flesh and abstain from whatever hinders direct fellowship with God."- Andrew Bonar

"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."-Samuel Zwemer

"This much is sure in all churches, forgetting party labels; the smallest meeting numerically is the prayer- meeting. If weak in prayer we are weak everywhere." - Leonard Ravenhill

"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." - A. W. Tozer

"How long will it take us to learn that our shortest route to the man next door is by way of God's throne? – A. T. Pierson

"Wherever the Church is aroused and the world's wickedness arrested, somebody has been praying." – A. T. Pierson

"How terrible is the cost of robbing God of time for prayer. When we rob God of time for quiet, we are robbing Him of ourselves. It is only in the quiet that we can really know Him and know ourselves, and be sure that we give ourselves back to Him. Oh, for God's sake, do not risk keeping the windows of Heaven closed by robbing God of time." ( Keswick 1946 ) – Gordon M. Guinness

"The missionary church is a praying church. The history of missions is a history of prayer. Everything vital to the success of the world's evangelization hinges on prayer. Are thousands of missionaries and tens of thousands of native workers needed? ‘Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that He send forth laborers into His harvest.’" – John R. Mott

"God the Holy Ghost calls for crusaders… How many ministers would be in church if it were not their job? The answer will be found in the number who never go to the job that is outside." –Samuel Chadwick

"Why does the Church stay indoors? They have a theology that has dwindled into a philosophy, in which there is no thrill of faith, no terror of doom and no concern for souls. Unbelief has put out the fires of passion, and worldliness garlands the altar of sacrifice with the tawdry glitter of unreality. The Holy Ghost cannot conquer the world with unbelief, nor can He save the world with a worldly Church. He calls for a crusade, a campaign, and an adventure of saving passion. For this enterprise He wants a separated, sanctified and sacrificial people." – Samuel Chadwick

"We give ourselves to prayer. We preach a Gospel that saves to the uttermost, and witness to its power. We do not argue about worldliness; we witness. We do not discuss philosophy; we preach the Gospel. We do not speculate about the destiny of sinners; we pluck them as brands from the burning. We ask no man's patronage. We beg no man's money. We fear no man's frown…Let no man join us who is afraid, and we want none but those who are saved, sanctified and aflame with the fire of the Holy Ghost." – Samuel Chadwick

"The Church gives more time, thought, and money to recreation and sport than to prayer." – Samuel Chadwick

"The whole history of the Church is one long story of this tendency to settle down on this earth and to become conformed to this world, to find acceptance and popularity here and to eliminate the element of conflict and of pilgrimage. That is the trend and the tendency of everything. Therefore outwardly, as well as inwardly, pioneering is a costly thing." – T. Austin Sparks

"It is a costly and a suffering thing to come up against the religious system that has ' settled down ' here. It is far more costly than coming up against the naked world itself. The religious system can be more ruthless and cruel and bitter; it can be actuated by all those mean things, contemptible things, prejudices and suspicions things that you will not even find in decent people in the world. It is costly to go on to the heavenlies, it is painful; but it is the way of the pioneer, and it has to be settled that that is how it is." – T. Austin Sparks

"’Go ye’ is as much a part of Christ's Gospel as ‘Come unto Me.’ You are not even a Christian until you have honestly faced your responsibility in regard to the carrying of the Gospel to the ends of the earth. What is your part in that great task?" – J. Stuart Holden

"There are great marvels in the world to-day. There is the marvel of the disobedient Church, which hugs to itself Christian privileges and neglects Christian obligations." – J. Stuart Holden

"It is wonderful what God can do with a broken heart, if He gets all the pieces." –Samuel Chadwick

"A gift without a heart behind it is a bribe. God asks for our heart, not our gifts." –Samuel Chadwick

"Pray that we may enter into that travail of soul with Him. Nothing less is any good. Spiritual children mean travail of soul-spiritual agony." – Amy Carmichael

"It is a solemn thing to find oneself drawn out in prayer which knows no relief till the soul it is burdened with is born. It is no less solemn afterwards, until Christ is formed in them." – Amy Carmichael

"The evangelization of the world in this generation depends first of all upon a revival of prayer. Deeper than the need for men; deeper, far, than the need for money; aye, deep down at the bottom of our spiritless life is the need for the forgotten secret of prevailing, world-wide prayer." – Robert E. Speer

"A generation which wishes for a religion without tears must find it difficult to adjust its beliefs to the teaching of the New Testament and of the facts of life…" – W. R. Inge
"God has called us to co-operate with Him in making the Gospel known to our generation." – J. Stuart Holden

"How long shall this fearful ruin of souls continue? Ought we not to make an effort to save China in this generation? Is God's power limited? Is the efficacy of prayer limited? This grand achievement is in the hands of the Church… We want China emancipated from the thralldom of sin in this generation. It is possible. Our Lord has said, ‘According to your faith be it unto you.' The Church of God can do it, if she be only faithful to her great commission." - General Conference of the Protestant Missionaries of China (1877)

"Are we, the Christians of to-day, awake to these facts and responsive to the claims of this glorious work? Do we understand that this vast responsibility rests upon us? That it is possible now, as never before in the world's history, to preach the Gospel to all the nations? And do we mean; God helping that this work shall be done ere we die? This is the deep significance of the hour to this generation." - Dr. Judson Smith

"Some reader may urge - No one generation has been actually evangelized. True; yet that is no proof of its impossibility; and the fact that past generations of Christians failed to accomplish their task, or rather, never tried (except perhaps in the first century, and even that is very doubtful), is no reason why we should shrink from ours." - Eugene Stock

"I feel now, that Arabia could easily be evangelized within the next thirty years if it were not for the wicked selfishness of Christians." – Samuel M. Zwemer

"I have said that there is nothing in the world or the Church, except it’s disobedience, to render the evangelization of the world in this generation an impossibility…" – Robert E. Speer

"China for Christ in this generation - Why not? In this generation, what doubt is there that China will be swept irresistibly into the stream of the world's competition? The West will not wait till a later generation. Why should the Church wait till a later generation? How splendidly equipped the Church is today to win not China only, but the world for Christ in one generation!" - J. C. Garritt

"It is possible to evangelize the world in this generation, if the Church will but do her duty. The trouble is not with the heathen. A dead Church will prevent it, if it is prevented. Why should it not be accomplished? God will have all men to be saved and come unto the knowledge of the truth. The resources of the Church are boundless. Let the will of the Church be brought into line with the will of God, and nothing will be found to be impossible. May God grant it!" - Griffith John

"Am I robbing God of time? How easy to do, and how impossible to repay! We have lost the sacred art of spending time with God, and nothing else can ever take its place. No repentance however deep, no restitution however costly, no sorrow however complete, can do away with the necessity for a daily time of sacred quiet, alone with God." ( Keswick 1946 ) – Gordon M. Guinness

"When our quiet times have become hurried, how can we expect to give God the adoration that is His due? How can we receive the guidance that God is waiting to give? How can our hearts catch the glow of divine fire? How can we have deep fellowship with those purposes that are really nearest to the heart of God?" ( Keswick 1946 ) – Gordon M. Guinness

"Prayer alone will overcome the gigantic difficulties which confront the workers in every field." – John R. Mott

"Hope and confidence should not be placed in the extent and perfection of organizations, nor in the experience which has been accumulated and the agencies and methods which have been devised in a long century of missions, nor in the unusual strength of the missionary body, nor in the multitude who have been gathered from every nation and race and faith into the native Church, nor in the wonderful resources and facilities of the home Church, nor in far-sighted and comprehensive plans, nor in enthusiastic forward movements and inspiring watchwords. It is easy to magnify human personality and agencies. Prayer recognizes that God is the source of life and light and energy." – John R. Mott

"Let methods be changed, therefore, if necessary, that prayer may be given its true place. Let there be days set apart for intercession; let the original purpose of the monthly concert of prayer for missions be given a larger place; let missionary prayer cycles be used by families and by individual Christians; let the best literature on prayer be circulated among the members of the Church; let special sermons on the Subject of intercession be preached. By these and by all other practical means a larger, deeper, wider spirit of prayer should be cultivated in the churches." – John R. Mott

"The Church has not yet touched the fringe of the possibilities of intercessory prayer. Her largest victories will be witnessed when individual Christians everywhere come to recognize their priesthood unto God and day by day give themselves unto prayer." – John R. Mott

"If added power attends the united prayer of two or three, what mighty triumphs there will be when hundreds of thousands of consistent members of the Church are with one accord day by day making intercession for the extension of Christ's Kingdom." – John R. Mott

"The evangelization of the world in this generation depends first of all upon a revival of prayer. Deeper than the need for men; deeper, far, than the need for money; aye, deep down at the bottom of our spiritless life is the need for the forgotten secret of prevailing, world-wide prayer." – Robert E. Speer

"The nature of Christ's salvation is woefully misrepresented by the present-day evangelist. He announces a Savior from hell rather than a Savior from sin. And that is why so many are fatally deceived, for there are multitudes who wish to escape the Lake of fire who have no desire to be delivered from their carnality and worldliness." - A. W. Pink

"Christ is a Savior for those realizing something of the exceeding sinfulness of sin, who feel the awful burden of it on their conscience, who loathe themselves for it, who long to be freed from its terrible dominion; and a Savior for no others." - A. W. Pink

"Faith and prayer are so inter-linked that faith is prayer and prayer is faith. You cannot separate them. You could not have the one without the other." – A. Lindsay Glegg

"Is the Gospel really dynamite, or does it need all sorts of human institutions and money? Much of the work we have done in the name of Jesus Christ has been, not to perform miracles of the Holy Ghost, but miracles of gold." –David Griffin

"If we go about apologizing for speaking to people of the things of God, we must not be very much surprised if they catch our timidity and they feel awkward and we feel awkward. There is a certain shyness and awkwardness about us when we go to tell men and women of the things of eternal life, which react upon them until they become nervous and awkward too." –Mildred Cable

"God has called us to co-operate with Him in making the Gospel known to our generation." - J. Stuart Holden

"God provides the men and women needed for each generation." –Mildred Cable

"My business is with all my might to serve my own generation. In doing so I shall best serve the next generation, should the Lord tarry…I have but one life to live on earth and this one life is but a brief life for sowing in comparison with eternity for reaping." - George Muller

"Your days at the most cannot be very long, so use them to the best of your ability for the glory of God and the benefit of your generation." - General Booth

"You are not here in the world for yourself. You have been sent here for others. The world is waiting for you!" - Catherine Booth

"This generation of Christians is responsible for this generation of souls on the earth!" - Keith Green

"I was eight years old when I joined the Church, I preached my first sermon when I was fourteen, and yet I was a missionary for twenty years before I had a full vision of Christ as an ever-present Savior from sin. This vision of Christ is absolutely necessary for success." – Griffith John

"I long to be filled with divine knowledge, divine wisdom, divine love, divine holiness, to the utmost extent of my capacity. I want to feel that all the currents of my soul are interfused in one channel deep and wide, and all flowing towards the heart of Christ." – Griffith John

"It is the Holy Ghost in us that is everything, and the Father is willing to bestow Him upon the weakest if he will only ask in the spirit of implicit faith and entire self-surrender. My cry these days is for a Pentecost, first on myself and my missionary brethren, and then on the native Church, and then on the heathen at large." – Griffith John

"We are in China in obedience to the command of our Lord; and the purpose of our Mission is to disciple and make Christians of this great nation.. . This is a great spiritual work, and to secure success in it we need the abiding presence of the Spirit, and through the Spirit such a full baptism of power as will perfectly fit each one of us for the special work which God has given him to do." – Griffith John

"The Holy Spirit is the immediate source of all holiness. The missionary must above all things be a holy man. The ideal teacher of the Chinese is a holy man. " He is entirely sincere, and perfect in love. He is magnanimous, generous, benign, and full of forbearance. He is pure in heart, free from selfishness, and never swerves from the path of duty in his conduct. He is deep and active like a fountain, sending forth his virtues in due season. He is seen, and men revere him; he speaks, and men believe him; he acts, and men are gladdened by him. He possesses all heavenly virtues. He is one with Heaven." – Griffith John

"I am convinced that no Christian teacher can be a great spiritual power in China in whom this ideal is not embodied and manifested in an eminent degree. He must be more than a good man (shan jen); he must be a holy man (sheng jen), exhibiting the vigor of every right purpose, and the intensity of every devout affection. He must be a man full of the Holy Ghost, and the divinity within must energize mightily through him. He must be a man who will take time, not only to master the language and literature of this people, but also to be holy. It is not ourselves-our poor selves-the Chinese want to see, but God in us" – Griffith John

"The Holy Spirit is the source of spiritual unity! He is the Fount of all true joy! We as missionaries need the fullness of this joy. Without it our work will be a burden to us, and we shall toil on with the hearts of slaves; and the hearts of slaves are never strong."– Griffith John

"The secret of the success of the Apostles lay not in what they did and said, but in the presence of Christ in them and with them. They saw with the eyes of Christ, felt with His heart, and worked with His energies. They were nothing; Christ was everything. Christ was living, breathing, and triumphing in their personal lives. Their entire nature being replete with His life, their spirits bathed in His light, and their souls kindled with the fires of His love, they moved in the midst of men as embodiments of supernatural power… Brethren, this is what we must be, if this mighty Empire (China) is to be moved through us. But to be this, the throne of grace must be our refuge, the secret place of the Most High must be our daily and hourly habitation." – Griffith John

"We must take time to become filled with His power; we must take time to be holy. Let us put our desires into one heart-felt petition for a baptism of the Holy Ghost, and not cease to present it until we have prevailed. So Elijah prayed; he threw himself on the ground, resolved not to rise again till his request was granted. So Jacob WRESTLED with the angel. So Daniel set his face unto the Lord his God. So the disciples continued with one accord in prayer and supplication! – Griffith John

"God's time for revival is the very darkest hour, when everything seems hopeless. It is always the Lord's way to go to the very worst cases to manifest His glory." – Andrew Gih

"God's program for reviving His people is definite and clear. First Elijah "repaired the altar of Jehovah that was thrown down." That is the place to begin. All the ruin that sin has wrought must be cleared away by confession. Things must be made right with God; restitution must be made where it is due. Unless this is done definitely and thoroughly, prayer for reviving is vain…Too many are praying today without repairing the altar by confession of sin, without digging a trench of separation from the world and without a surrender that is even unto death. No wonder such prayer is fruitless." – Andrew Gih

"In the interior city of Chengchow the ‘Bethel Evangelistic Band’ had a very difficult time. The meetings had gone on without noticeable results and the last day came. The Band knew that the hindrance must be with the leaders who seemed quite indifferent. Desperately we prayed, and when hope seem almost gone we were reminded that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years. He can do wonders in just one day! Our faith took hold on God for the fall of Jericho at the last. And God honored our faith. During the morning meeting one of the missionaries could not restrain his tears and confessed most humbly that he was a great sinner and hypocrite. Then the Holy Spirit fell on the whole congregation and all were convicted of sin and confessed with tears of contrition. At the closing meeting there was no opportunity for preaching. The Holy Spirit was working and people spontaneously confessed their sins and need, or gave joyous testimonies of salvation." – Andrew Gih

"Before we go to our knees to receive the Baptism of Fire, let me beg of you to see to it that your souls are in harmony with the will and purpose of the Holy Spirit whom you seek." - William Booth

"Revival is the assemblies of God manifesting the oneness of the membership in the mystical, supernatural body of Christ, delivered from denominational bigotry." – James A. Stewart

"Revival is the saints of God agonizing on behalf of lost souls going to hell." – James A. Stewart

"Revival is the people of God living in the power of an ungrieved, unquenched Spirit." – James A. Stewart

"Revival is the child of God desperately in love with his glorious Savior and Lord." – James A. Stewart

"Revival is living the Christ life in the home." – James A. Stewart

"Revival is the heathen saying, "The Lord hath done great things for them" (Psa. 126:2). – James A. Stewart

"Revival is Zion travailing in spiritual childbirth." – James A. Stewart

"Revival is the Church of God as a conquering army putting to rout the hosts of hell." – James A. Stewart

"Revival is torrents of living water flowing out of the individual believer." – James A. Stewart

"Revival is the beauty of holiness adorning the saints." – James A. Stewart

"Revival is the recognition of the ministry of insignificant members of the body, and deliverance from idol worship of the more prominent members who are in the limelight." – James A. Stewart

"Revival is restoring the years the locusts have eaten." – James A. Stewart

"Revival is the people of God constrained, gripped, overmastered, and overwhelmed by the love of Christ, so that they are feverishly restless to win souls for Christ." – James A. Stewart

"Revival is the whole assembly powerfully and passionately winning lost souls to Christ." – James A. Stewart

"I believe there is one thing for which God is very angry with our land, and for which His Holy Spirit is so little among us, and that is the neglect of united prayer; the appointed means of bringing down the Holy Spirit." – Brownlow North

"The neglect of prayer proves to my mind, that there is a large amount of practical infidelity. If the people believed that there was a real, existing, personal God, they would ask Him for what they wanted, and they would get what they asked. But they do not ask, because they do not believe or expect to receive." – Brownlow North

"0h Christians, go more to the prayer-meetings…" – Brownlow North

"From the day of Pentecost, there has been not one great spiritual awakening in any land which has not begun in a union of prayer, though only among two or three. And no such outward, upward movement has continued after such prayer meetings have declined. It is in exact proportion to the maintenance of such joint and believing supplication and intercession that the Word of the Lord in any land or locality has had free course and been glorified." - A. T. Pierson

"Revival and change are almost synonymous terms and both clearly cut across traditionalism. There is no way true revival can occur without major changes disrupting and reordering the life of the Church... God is no traditionalist. While God is orderly, He is always fresh and vital. If a church can run according to forms and traditions of men, it will run without the presence and power of God ... Is it any wonder the love of tradition is an enemy to revival? Revival and new life go hand in hand ... Let every church realize that the inordinate love of tradition is a great opponent to revival ... When a church slays the love of tradition, a major obstacle to revival will be slain With it." – Richard Owen Roberts

"To some of you we say, Go forward rather than pray. Think not that we would, as these words might imply, cast discredit on prayer. But, beloved our hearts are deceitful, and although we should at every moment have an upward eye and a thirsting heart for the guidance and the presence of the living God, still there are times and circumstances when it becomes almost a sin to pray. Sometimes it is unbelief that makes us pray, or rather seem to pray, else what does that word mean, ''Why criest thou unto me? speak unto the children of Israel that they go forward.'"(Ex 14:15) –William C. Burns

"There is no question that God works, often powerfully, in the old structures. But it is inevitable that those very structures put serious limitations on His working. It is all too easy for the ground gained to be lost, for the situation to revert, and for the whole process to need repeating within a short space of time. Take the 1950, Lewis Awakening. Though confined to certain Presbyterian churches in the Outer Hebrides, this was a powerful movement of the Spirit that deeply affected those communities at the time. Many found faith in Christ, and some of these are now in full-time service. But the fact remains that in less than a decade you could visit those very churches where God had worked so powerfully and never suspect that they had ever tasted revival. Without a change of structure it is virtually Impossible to conserve the fruits of revival." - Arthur Wallis

"If our GOAL is Revival, we will be quite unbalanced when it comes. If our goal is God, we will be able to walk with Him calmly and steadfastly through years of waiting and through the joys and victories of a season of refreshing. Christ crucified and risen is not only the Door, and the Way, but the End also. It is our personal relationship to Him which counts more than anything else. Oh, the need for men and women who know their God! The Church of Christ will only arise militant, triumphant, an 'exceeding great army', when individuals get rightly related to God." - Nancy B. Morris

"Perhaps the greatest barrier to revival on a large scale is the fact that we are to interested in a great display. We want an exhibition; God is looking for a man who will throw himself entirely on God. Whenever self-effort, self-glory, self-seeking or self-promotion enters into the work of revival, then God leaves us to ourselves." - Ted S. Rendall

"The disappearance of the 'prayer meeting' from the life of many churches is something which occasions widespread regret, even among many who would not normally attend. Indeed, the prayer meeting in which the laity participated freely is a legacy from the 1859 (Ulster) Revival...These prayer meetings were not in many cases in existence before the revival set in. The very establishment of them in the first instance, was an evidence that it was spring-time again in the Church of Christ, and the restoration of them today would be for her reviving once more." - John T. Carson

"I am tired of hearing the words 'I can't'. Jeremiah said, 'I am a child'; but the Lord didn't pat him on the back and say, Jeremiah, that is very good, I like that in you; your humility is beautiful.' Oh no! God didn't want any such mock humility. He reproved and rebuked it. I do not like the humility that is too humble to do as it is bid. When my children are too humble to do as they are bid, I pretty soon find a way to make them. I say, 'Go and do it!' The Lord wants us to 'go and do it'." - Catherine Booth

"All practical power over sin and over men depends on maintaining closet communion. Those who abide in the secret place with God show themselves mighty to conquer evil, and strong to work and to war for God. They are seers who read His secrets; they know His will; they are the meek whom He guides in judgment and teaches His way. They are His prophets who speak for Him to others, and even forecast things to come. They watch the signs of the times and discern His tokens and read His signals." - A. T. Pierson

"God has no greater controversy with His people today than this, that with boundless promises to believing prayer, there are so few who actually give themselves unto intercession." - A. T. Pierson

"You must pray with all your might. That does not mean saying your prayers, or sitting gazing about in church or chapel with eyes wide open while someone else says them for you. It means fervent, effectual, untiring wrestling with God...This kind of prayer be sure the devil and the world and your own indolent, unbelieving nature will oppose. They will pour water on this flame." - William Booth

"A man set on fire is an apostle of his age. And the only one who can kindle the spark of light and fire on the hearth where it has died down is He who has revealed Himself as the God of fire, our Lord Jesus Christ. 'Our God is a consuming fire'...Tell me, is your ministry a burning and shining light, or a smoking wick, slowly dying out to ashes? ...It is a strange custom that we should supply a minister with a glass of water; if only we could supply him with a bonfire in the pulpit, a spiritual bonfire. We need the dynamic of a flaming ministry that will set the Church on fire."
- Samuel M. Zwemer (Keswick 1937)

"Revival will call for much love and humility, because it may please God to use one man more extensively than another. The fleece of one denomination may appear to be wet with the dews of heaven while another is only damp with it. In some cases God may use the least gifted of men - at least some would so judge them - and in the least likely of churches find a channel for His grace. May God preserve us from a spirit which would prefer to see no revival at all if it did not come in our form, after our pattern, and through our instrumentality." - John T. Carson

"Preachers who never have revivals never weary of calling attention to everything objectionable in the methods of those who have powerful revivals...O ye fault-finders, beware lest when your Lord come, ye be found smiting your fellow servants, instead of working with them!" - B. T. Roberts

"Prayer is self-discipline. The effort to realize the presence and power of God stretches the sinews of the soul and hardens its muscles. To pray is to grow in grace. To tarry in the presence of the King leads to new loyalty and devotion on the part of the faithful subjects. Christian character grows in the secret-place of prayer. - Samuel M. Zwemer

"At Waterloo, the English troops obeying orders fell on their faces for a time and let the hot fire of the French artillery pass over them. Then they sprang to their feet and rushed to the thickest of the fight and beat back their foes. The Lord wants His people flat on their faces, before they attempt to meet the great crises of life." - A. T. Pierson

"A marble cutter, with chisel and hammer, was changing a stone into a statue. A preacher looking on said: 'I wish I could deal such changing blows on stony hearts. ' The workman answered: 'Maybe you could, if you worked like me, upon your knees.'" - A. T. Pierson

"True prayer will achieve just as much as it costs us." - Samuel M. Zwemer

"Our power in drawing others after the Lord mainly rests in our joy and communion with Him ourselves." - J. G. Bellett

"Do not be satisfied with as much Christianity as will only ease your conscience." - J. B. Stoney

"By the time the average Christian gets his temperature up to normal, everybody thinks he has a FEVER!" - Watchman Nee

"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." - Charles Spurgeon"

The great battles, the battles that decide our destiny and the destiny of generations yet unborn, are not fought on public platforms, but in the lonely hours of the night and in moments of agony." - Samuel Logan Brengle

"Do we give sufficient attention to the theme of gaining Christ? It is our joy and privilege to know Him as God's unspeakable gift, but none knew this more fully than the apostle Paul. But was he satisfied with this knowledge? Or was Paul's soul-consuming desire, at all possible cost, to gain Christ; and thus to know Him, and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings? Oh that Christ may be so known by us as a ‘living, bright reality’ that our one desire-our one absorbing heart-passion may be that we personally gain Christ-that we personally know Him as the apostle longed to do." - Hudson Taylor

The essence of prayer does not consist in asking God for something but in opening our hearts to God, in speaking with Him, and living with Him in perpetual communion. Prayer is continual abandonment to God. Prayer does not mean asking God for all kinds of things we want; it is rather the desire for God Himself, the only Giver of Life, Prayer is not asking, but union with God. Prayer is not a painful effort to gain from God help in the varying needs of our lives. Prayer is the desire to possess God Himself, the Source of all life. The true spirit of prayer does not consist in asking for blessings, but in receiving Him who is the giver of all blessings, and in living a life of fellowship with Him." - Sadhu Sundar Singh

The Word of God represents all the possibilities of God as at the disposal of true prayer." -A. T. Pierson

"What a man is on his knees before God in secret, that will he be before men: that much and no more." -Fred Mitchell

"Whether we like it or not, asking is the rule of the Kingdom. If you may have everything by asking in His Name, and nothing without asking, I beg you to see how absolutely vital prayer is." -C. H. Spurgeon

"Prayer - secret, fervent, believing prayer - lies at the root of all personal godliness." -William Carey

"Job's friends chose the right time to visit him, but took not the right course of improving their visit; had they spent the time in praying for him which they did in hot disputes with him, they would have profited him, and pleased God more." -William Gurnall

"The energies of the universe, nay, of God Himself, are at the disposal of those who pray - to the man who stirreth up himself to take hold of God." – Samuel Zwemer

"There is absolutely no substitute for this secret communion with God. The public Church services, or even the family altar, cannot take the place of the 'closet' prayer. We must deliberately seek to meet with God absolutely alone, and to secure such aloneness with God we are bidden to 'enter into thy closet.' God absolutely insists on this 'closet'-communion with Himself. One reason, no doubt, that He demands it, is to test our sincerity. There is no test for the soul like solitude. Do you shrink from solitude? Perhaps the cause for your neglect of the 'closet' is a guilty conscience? You are afraid to enter into the solitude. You know that however cheerful you appear to be you are not really happy. You surround yourself with company lest, being alone, truth should invade your delusion…" – Gordon Cove

"Revival, as contrasted with a Holy Ghost atmosphere is a clean-cut breakthrough of the Spirit, a sweep of Holy Ghost power, bending the hearts of hardened sinners as the wheat before the wind, breaking up the fountains of the great deep, sweeping the whole range of the emotions, as the master hand moves across the harp strings, from the tears and cries of the penitent to the holy laughter and triumphant joy of the cleansed. They are fools who belittle such holy experiences and warn against ‘excessive emotionalism.’ Such do not even understand the make-up of ‘Mansoul,’ still less the ways of the Eternal Lover with His beloved." – Norman Grubb

"Prayer meetings are dead affairs when they are merely asking sessions; there is adventure, hope and life when they are believing sessions, and the faith is corporately, practically and deliberately affirmed." – Norman Grubb

"I want deliberately to encourage this mighty longing after God. The lack of it has brought us to our present low estate. The stiff and wooden quality about our religious lives is a result of our lack of holy desire. Complacency is a deadly foe of all spiritual growth. Acute desire must be present or there will be no manifestation of Christ to His people. He waits to be wanted. Too bad that with many of us He waits so long, so very long, in vain." – A. W. Tozer

"Important as it is that we recognize God working in us, I would yet warn against an over preoccupation with the thought. It is a sure road to sterile passivity. God will not hold us responsible to understand the mysteries of election, predestination and the divine sovereignty. The best and safest way to deal with these truths is to raise our eyes to God and in deepest reverence say, ‘Oh Lord Thou knowest.’ Those things belong to the deep and mysterious Profound of God's omniscience. Prying into them may make theologians, but it will never make saints." – A. W. Tozer

"Has it ever occurred to you that one hundred pianos all tuned to the same fork are automatically tuned to each other? They are of one accord by being tuned, not to each other, but to another standard to which each one must individually bow. So one hundred worshippers meeting together, each one looking away to Christ, are in heart nearer to each other than they could possibly be were they to become ‘unity’ conscious and turn their eyes away from God to strive for closer fellowship. Social religion is perfected when private religion is purified. The body becomes stronger as its members become healthier. The whole church of God gains when the members that compose it begin to seek a better and a higher life." – A. W. Tozer

"It is morally impossible to exercise trust in God while there is failure to wait upon Him for guidance and direction. The man who does not learn to wait upon the Lord and have his thoughts molded by Him will never possess that steady purpose and calm trust, which is essential to the exercise of wise influence upon others, in times of crisis and difficulty." - D. E. Hoste

"I find it a good thing to fast. I do not lay down rules for anyone in this matter, but I know it has been a good thing for me to go without meals to get time for prayer. So many say they have not sufficient time to pray. We think nothing of spending an hour or two in taking our meals." - D. E. Hoste

"Sometimes we think we are too busy to pray. That is a great mistake, for praying is a savings of time." - Charles Spurgeon

"The great tragedy of life is not unanswered prayer, but unoffered prayer." - F. B. Myer

"True prayer always receives what it asks for—or something better." - Byron Edwards

"The less I pray, the harder it gets; the more I pray the better it goes." - Martin Luther

"We must move from asking God to take care of the things that are breaking our hearts, to praying about the things that are breaking His heart." - Margaret Gibb

"Prayer is our most formidable weapon; the thing which makes all else we do efficient." - E. M. Bounds

"Turn your doubts to questions; turn your questions to prayers; turn your prayers to God." - Mark Litteton

"Begin to realize more and more that prayer is the most important thing you do. You can use your time to no better advantage than to pray whenever you have an opportunity to do so, either while alone or with others; while at work, while at rest, or while walking down the street. Anywhere!" - O. Hallesby

"Should it not be recognized that the practice of prayer and intercession needs to be taught to young believers, or rather developed in young believers, quite as much, if not more so than other branches of the curriculum? Unless, however, we ourselves are, through constant persevering practice, truly alive unto God in this holy warfare, we shall be ineffective in influencing others. I am quite sure the rule holds that the more we pray the more we want to pray; the converse also being true." - D. E. Hoste

"When young people first come out, how this one or that one makes an impression by ability, zeal or personality. It is easy to imagine such and such a one is going to make a great success. But it is wiser to wait and see. Often the unnoticed and less gifted ones by sheer diligence and devotion become the successes." - D. E. Hoste

"I should like to allude to a few points in the character of Mr. Hudson Taylor which impressed me personally, and which I think had something to do with the blessing that God granted to his efforts on behalf of this country (China). First his prayerfulness; he was of necessity a busy man, but he always regarded prayer itself as in reality the most needful and important part of the work. He practically recognized that much time must be spent in seeking God's guidance, if a right understanding was to be obtained of the problems and difficulties that confronted him, in carrying on the work of the Mission. He knew that in no other way was the power of the Holy Spirit to be obtained for himself and his brethren, as they sought to develop the work. I venture on this occasion, not only to impress upon myself, but upon you as well, the importance of our copying him in this respect." - D. E. Hoste

"Out of a very intimate acquaintance with D. L. Moody, I wish to testify that he was a far greater pray-er than he was preacher. Time and time again, he was confronted by obstacles that seemed insurmountable, but he always knew the way to overcome all difficulties. He knew the way to bring to pass anything that needed to be brought to pass. He knew and believed in the deepest depths of his soul that nothing was too hard for the Lord, and that prayer could do anything that God could do. " – R. A. Torrey.
"All great soul-winners have been men of much and mighty prayer, and all great revivals have been preceded and carried out by persevering, prevailing knee-work in the closet." – Samuel Logan Brengle

"God has created both the mother's milk and the child's desire to drink it. But the milk does not flow of itself into the child's mouth. No, the child must lie in its mother bosom and suck the milk diligently. God has created the spiritual food which we need. He has filled the soul of man with desire for this food, with an impulse to cry out for it and to drink it in. The spiritual milk, the nourishment of our souls, we receive through prayer. By means of fervent prayer we must receive it into our souls. As we do this we become stronger day by day, just like the infant at the breast." - Sadhu Sundar Singh
"We have found no means so much blessed to keep religion alive as FASTING and PRAYER." - Edward Payson

"It is not enough for the believer to begin to pray, nor to pray correctly; nor is it enough to continue for a time to pray. We must patiently, believingly continue in prayer until we obtain an answer. Further, we have not only to continue in prayer until the end, but we have also to believe that God does hear us and will answer our prayers. Most frequently we fail in not continuing in prayer until the blessing is obtained, and in not expecting the blessing. Those who are disciples of the Lord Jesus should labor with all their might in the work of God as if everything depended upon their own endeavors. Yet, having done so, they should not in the least trust in their labor and efforts, nor in the means that they use for the spread of the truth, but in God alone; and they should with all earnestness seek the blessing of God in persevering, patient, and believing prayer. Here is the great secret of success, my Christian reader. Work with all your might, but never trust in your work. Pray with all your might for the blessing in God, but work at the same time with all diligence, with all patience, with all perseverance. Pray, then, and work. Work and pray. And still again pray, and then work. And so on, all the days of your life. The result will surely be abundant blessing. Whether you see much fruit or little fruit, such kind of service will be blessed." – George Muller

"To every toiling, heavy-laden sinner, Jesus says, ‘Come to me and rest’. But there are many toiling, heavy-laden believers, too. For them this same invitation is meant. Note well the words of Jesus, if you are heavy-laden with your service, and do not mistake it. It is not, ‘Go, labor on,’ as perhaps you imagine. On the contrary, it is stop, turn back, ‘Come to me and rest.’ Never, never did Christ send a heavy laden one to work; never, never did He send a hungry one, a weary one, a sick or sorrowing one, away on any service. For such the Bible only says, ‘Come, come, come.’ – Hudson Taylor

"The neglect of prayer is a grand hindrance to holiness." - John Wesley

"God will not let me get the blessing without asking. Today I am setting my face to fast and pray for enlightenment and refreshing. Until I can get up to the measure of at least two hours in pure prayer every day, I shall not be contented. Meditation and reading besides." - Andrew Bonar

"One of the special marks of the Holy Ghost in the Apostolic Church was the spirit of boldness. One of the most essential qualities of faith that is to attempt great things for God and expect great things from God, is holy audacity. Where we are dealing with a supernatural Being, and taking from Him things that are humanly impossible, it is easier to take much than little; it is easier to stand in a place of audacious trust than in a place of cautious, timid clinging to the shore. Likewise, seamen in the life of faith, let us launch out into the deep, and find that all things are possible with God, and all things are possible unto him that believeth." - A. B. Simpson

"Beware in your prayers, above everything else, of limiting God, not only by unbelief, but by fancying that you know what He can do. Expect unexpected things, ‘above all that we ask or think’. Each time, before you Intercede, be quiet first, and worship God in His glory. Think of what He can do, and how He delights to hear the prayers of His redeemed people. Think of your place and privilege in Christ, and expect great things!" - Andrew Murray

"When we find anything promised in the Word of God, we are not to neglect to seek it because it is promised: but we are to pray for it on that very account. ‘Thus saith the Lord God; I will yet for this be inquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them; I will increase them with men like a flock" (Ezek. 36:37). The promise is absolute; but the time of its fulfillment depends upon the prayers of His people." - B. T. Roberts

"The reason why we obtain no more in prayer is because we expect no more. God usually answers us according to our own hearts." - Richard Allelne

"Some years ago in China, at a meeting of missionaries and Chinese pastors, one of the Chinese pastors made a striking address. He said that he and his brethren were more than grateful to those who brought them the word of life and the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, but yet, he said, there was one thing more which missionaries should teach their spiritual children. This new thing was to pray with authority, so that they might know how to take their stand in faith before the throne and rebuke the forces of evil, holding steady and firm, and gain the victory over them. That same need is tremendously evident today in the experiences of all that are seeking to walk closely with the Lord, and to stand for Him in the face of increasing opposition. Some have spoken of this as ‘throne prayer’- praying with one's hand touching the throne of God." - T. Stanley Soltau

"It is very much easier to work than to pray. Most of the missionaries are earnest workers. But are we all that we should be in the matter of prayer? Let us not suppose that just any sort of praying will do for China. We must all wrestle with God. ‘I will not let Thee go unless Thou bless China.’ It must come to this if the conversion of the Chinese is ever to be an accomplished fact. Such is my conviction. Let me remind you that the greatest importunity is not incompatible with the profoundest submission to the Divine will." - Griffith John

"It must be remembered that there is spiritual wickedness at the back of all confusion and discord in the work of God. The servant of Christ must, therefore, practically recognize that his warfare is with these satanic beings and must be waged on his knees." - D. E. Hoste

"He who has no vision of ETERNITY will never get a true hold of TIME." - T. Carlyle
"Live near to God, and so all things will appear to you little in comparison with eternal realities." - Robert Murray M’Cheyne

"The neglected heart will soon be a heart overrun with worldly thoughts; the neglected life will soon become a moral chaos; the church that is not jealously protected by mighty intercession and sacrificial labors will before long become the abode of every evil bird and the hiding place for unsuspected corruption. The creeping wilderness will soon take over that church that trusts in its own strength and forgets to watch and pray." - A. W. Tozer

"We have not been men of prayer. The spirit of prayer has slumbered among us. The closet has been too little frequented and delighted in. We have allowed business, study or active labor to interfere with our closet-hours. And the feverish atmosphere in which both the church and the nation are enveloped has found its way into our prayer closets…" - Andrew Bonar

"Why is there so little forethought in the laying out of time and employment, so as secure a large portion of each day for prayer? Why is there so much speaking, yet so little prayer? Why Is there so much running to and fro to meetings, conventions, fellowship gatherings and yet so little time for prayer'? Brethren, why so many meetings with our fellow men and so few meetings with God?" - Andrew Bonar

"A godly man is a praying man. As soon as grace is poured in, prayer is poured out. Prayer is the soul's traffic with Heaven; God comes down to us by His Spirit, and we go up to Him by prayer." - Thomas Watson

"If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million enemies. Yet distance makes no difference. He is praying for me." - Robert Murray M’Cheyne

"Men of prayer are men of faith; closet supplicants make faith’s heroes." – The War Cry (1895)

"If I am concerned that my flock be men and women of prayer, then, as their pastor, I must lead the way; apathy in me will produce apathy in them. The church prayer meeting ought to be the best attended in the week, and if it is, success will follow the ministry of the Word at the weekends. I would rather a thousand times set men and women to pray than teach them to preach." " - J. D. Drysdale

"I would rather teach one man to pray than ten men to preach." - J. H. Jowett
"Oh, how few find time for prayer! There is time for everything else, time to sleep and time to eat, time to read the newspaper and the novel, time to visit friends, time for everything else under the sun, but-no time for prayer, the most important of all things, the one great essential!" -Oswald Smith

"On the mountains, torrents flow right along, cutting their own courses. But on the plains canals have to be dug out painfully by men so that the water might flow. So among those who live on the heights with God, the Holy Spirit makes its way through of its own accord, whereas those who devote little time to prayer and communion with God have to organize painfully." -Sadhu Sunder Singh

"Groanings which cannot be uttered are often prayers which cannot be refused." - C. H. Spurgeon

"God's greatest gifts to man come through travail. Whether we look into the spiritual or temporal sphere, can we discover anything, any great reform, any beneficial discovery, any soul-awakening revival, which did not come through the tolls and tears, the vigils and blood-shedding of men and woman whose sufferings were the pangs of Its birth?" - F. B. Meyer

"Some people become tired at the end of ten minutes or half an hour of prayer. What will they do when they have to spend Eternity in the presence of God? We must begin the habit here and become used to being with God." - Sadhu Sundar Singh

"Prayer is reaching out after the unseen; fasting is letting go of all that is seen and temporal. Fasting helps express, deepen, confirm the resolution that we are ready to sacrifice anything, even ourselves to attain what we seek for the kingdom of God." - Andrew Murray

"Continuing instant in prayer (Rom. 12:12). The Greek is a metaphor taken from hunting dogs that never give over the game till they have their prey." - Thomas Brooks

"Trying to run a church without revivals can be done when you can run a gasoline engine on buttermilk." - Billy Sunday

"Enthusiasm is as good a thing in the Church as fire is in a cook stove."- Billy Sunday
"If you are strangers to prayer you are strangers to power." - Billy Sunday

"Shall I give you yet another reason why you should pray? I have preached my very heart out. I could not say any more than I have said. Will not your prayers accomplish that which my preaching fails to do? Is it not likely that the Church has been putting forth its preaching hand but not its praying hand? Oh dear friends! Let us agonize in prayer." – C. H. Spurgeon

"We must feel toward our people as a father toward his children; yea, the most tender love of a mother must not surpass ours. We must even travail in birth, till Christ be formed in them. They should see that we care for no outward thing, neither liberty, nor honor, nor life, in comparison to their salvation... When the people see that you truly love them, they will hear anything from you...Oh therefore, see that you feel a tender love for your people in your hearts, and let them perceive it in your speech and conduct. Let them see that you spend and are spent for their sakes." - Richard Baxter

"All prayer is hidden. It is behind a closed door. The best spade diggers go down into deep ditches out of sight. There are numbers of surface workers, but few who in self-obliteration toil alone with God." - Seth Joshua

"A church in the land without the Spirit is rather a curse than a blessing. If you have not the Spirit of God, Christian worker, remember that you stand in somebody else's way; you are a fruitless tree standing where a fruitful tree might grow."– C. H. Spurgeon

"I was enabled to lie at Jesus' feet and to wash them with the tears of contrition. No pleasure I have ever found in the Christian life is superior to this." - Edward Payson

"In the evening I was favored with great faith and fervency in prayer. It seemed as if God would deny me nothing, and I wrestled for multitudes of souls, and could not help hoping there would be revival here." - Edward Payson

"As I was walking in the fields, the thought came over me with almost overwhelming power, that every one of my flock must soon be in heaven or hell. Oh how I wished that I had a tongue like thunder, that I might make all hear; or that I had a frame like iron, that I might visit every one and say, 'Escape for thy life! Ah sinner! You little know how I fear that you will lay the blame of your damnation at my door." - Robert Murray M'Cheyne

"If revival is being withheld from us it is because some idol remains still enthroned; because we still insist in placing our reliance in human schemes; because we still refuse to face the unchangeable truth that 'It is not by might, but by My Spirit." - Jonathan Goforth

"I had an overwhelming experience of the Lord's presence. I felt so powerfully overcome by the nearness of the Holy Spirit that I had to ask the Lord to draw back lest He kill me. It was so glorious that I couldn't stand more than a small portion of it." - Mordecai Ham

"There are a lot of Christians who are halfway fellows. They stand in the door, holding on to the Church with one hand while they play with the toys of the world with the other. They are in the doorway and we can't bring sinners in. And, until we get some of God's people right, we cannot hope to get sinners regenerated. Now they always accuse me of carrying around a sledge hammer with which to pound the church members. Yes sir, I do pound them, every time I come down, I knock one of the halfway fellows out of the doorway, and every time I knock one out I get a sinner in." - Mordecai Ham

"One of our troubles is we are not willing to humble ourselves. We are not willing to give up our opinions as to how things should be done. We want a revival to come just in our way. You never saw two revivals come just alike. We must let them come in God's way. People are ashamed to admit they need a revival. If you are not willing to take the shame on yourself, you then let it remain on Jesus Christ. You must bear the reproach of your sinful state of indifference, or the cause of our Master must bear it." - Mordecai Ham

"Many do not recognize the fact as they ought, that Satan has got men fast asleep in sin and that it is his great device to keep them so. He does not care what we do if he can do that. We may sing songs about the sweet by and by, preach sermons and say prayers until doomsday, and he will never concern himself about us, if we don't wake anybody up. But if we awake the sleeping sinner he will gnash on us with his teeth. This is our work - to wake people up." - Catherine Booth

"Spirit filled souls are ablaze for God. They love with a love that glows. They serve with a faith that kindles. They serve with a devotion that consumes. They hate sin with fierceness that burns. They rejoice with a joy that radiates. Love is perfected in the fire of God." - Samuel Chadwick

"Are you truly a Spirit-filled Christian? Does the term "Spirit-filled" describe your doctrine or your devotion?" – David Smithers

"How is it that the soul being of such value, and God so great, eternity so near and yet we are so little moved?" - William Bramwell

"Pray, O pray, my brother! never, never quit your hold of the fullness of God; for time is nearly over, and if this fullness be lost it will be lost forever. I am astonished that we do not pray more, yea, that we do not live every moment as on the brink of the eternal world, and in the blessed expectation of that glorious country." - William Bramwell

"During the night I usually awake every hour and a half or two hours, when I strike a light and read a few verses of the Bible, which seldom fail to bring delight and quickening, with food for meditation and prayer...Last night I read the words of Christ, 'Behold My hands and My feet, that is I Myself: handle Me and see.' What will it be to handle for ourselves and to kiss those blessed feet, with the prints of the nails that fastened Him to the cross for our redemption and resurrection?" - Alexander Moody Stuart

"Many are willing that Christ should be something, but few will consent that Christ should be everything." - Alexander Moody Stuart

"Many who do come into the secret place, and who are God's children, enter it and leave it just as they entered, without ever so much as realizing the presence of God. And there are some believers who, even when they do obtain a blessing, and get a little quickening of soul, leave the secret place without seeking more. They go to their chamber, and there get into the secret place, but then, as soon as they have got near to Him, they think they have been peculiarly blessed, and leave their chamber, and go back into the world… Oh, how is it that the Lord's own people have so little perseverance? How is it that when they do enter into their place of prayer to be alone, they are so easily persuaded to be turned away empty; instead of wrestling with God to pour out His Spirit, they retire from the secret place without the answer, and submit to it as being God's will." – William C. Burns

"While women weep, as they do now, I'll fight; while children go hungry, as they do now I'll fight; while men go to prison, in and out, in and out, as they do now, I'll fight; while there is a drunkard left, while there is a poor lost girl upon the streets, while there remains one dark soul without the light of God, I'll fight - I'll fight to the very end!" - William Booth

"Work as if everything depended upon your work, and pray as if everything depended upon your prayer." - William Booth

"Go for souls and go for the worst." – William Booth

"Our method of proclaiming salvation is this: to point out to every heart the loving Lamb, who died for us, and although He was the Son of God, offered Himself for our sins ... by the preaching of His blood, and of His love unto death, even the death of the cross, never, either in discourse or in argument, to digress even for a quarter of an hour from the loving Lamb: to name no virtue except in Him, and from Him and on His account,-to preach no commandment except faith in Him; no other justification but that He atoned for us; no other sanctification but the privilege to sin no more; no other happiness but to be near Him, to think of Him and do His pleasure; no other self denial but to be deprived of Him and His blessings; no other calamity but to displease Him; no other life but in Him." - Count Zinzendorf

"A real minister of the gospel is a man of prayer. Prayer is his grand employment, his safety, his first and perpetual duty; and under grace, the grand source of his consolation. Our instructions will be always barren, if they be not watered with our tears and prayers." - Thomas Coke

"A man may study because his brain is hungry for knowledge, even Bible knowledge. But he prays because his soul is hungry for God." - Leonard Ravenhill

"A zealous man feels that like a lamp he is made to burn; and if consumed in burning, he has but done the work for which God appointed him. Such a one will always find a sphere for his zeal. If he cannot preach and work and give money, he will cry and sigh and pray." - J. C. Ryle

"Lord grant that the FIRE of my heart may melt the lead in my feet." - Unknown
"A minister, who prays not, who is not in love with prayer, is not a minister of the Church of God. He is a dry tree, which occupies in vain a place in Christ's garden. He is an enemy, and not a father, of the people. He is a stranger, who has taken the place of the shepherd, and to whom the salvation of the flock is an indifferent thing." – Thomas Coke

"In Shansi I found Chinese Christians who were accustomed to spend time in fasting and prayer. They recognized that this fasting, which so many dislike, which requires faith in God, since it makes one feel weak and poorly, is really a Divinely appointed means of grace. Perhaps the greatest hindrance to our work is our own imagined strength; and in fasting we learn what poor, weak creatures we are-dependent on a meal of meat for the little strength which we are so apt to lean upon." - J. Hudson Taylor

"The Azusa revival began where every revival should rightly begin-in repentant tears. It began in tears, it lived in tears, and when the tears ended the Azusa revival ended." - A. G. Osterberg

"A revival almost always begins among the laity. The ecclesiastical leaders seldom welcome reformation. History repeats itself. The present leaders are too comfortably situated as a rule to desire innovation that might require sacrifice on their part. And God's fire only falls on sacrifice. An empty altar receives no fire!" – Frank Bartleman

"God is presently seeking for a humble, praying people that He can pour His glory through. If we will not yield to the Holy Spirit in humble obedience, He will find a people who will! Some of us may have to visit someone else's fellowship in order to experience the coming move of God. Let's not deceive ourselves, God is not committed to use us, but He is committed to remember the prayer of the humble. (Psa. 9:12). If we refuse to prescribe to the Christ honored methods of humility and prayer, we will certainly be refused for the Master's use in the coming revival." - David Smithers

"The self-righteous never apologize." - Leonard Ravenhill

"When HOLINESS loses its sweetness it is a fierce thing to come in contact with." – Frank Bartleman

"God has a good deal more to give than most of us are getting. "Knee-ology" is a much-neglected branch of Christian ethics. The Church loses immeasurably in strength and accelerated power by failing to test the wonderful promises of God in prayer. Oh, for somebody who can really pray. Why need a church languish and die and have no one converted the year round? Somebody neglects to pray. Why need a community be without a revival for years? Somebody neglects to pray. Why need the missionary cause and current expenses of the church suffer? Somebody neglects to pray. Why need the church resort to unscriptural methods to raise money? Somebody neglects to pray. Oh, for a praying church! Brother, sister, apply this directly to your own heart. Are you neglecting to pray?" – C. E. Cornell

"Prayer is not designed to inform God, but to give man a sight of his misery; to humble his heart, to excite his desire, to inflame his faith, to animate his hope, to raise his soul from earth to heaven." – Adam Clarke

"They who pray not, know nothing of God, and know nothing of the state of their own souls." – Adam Clarke

"This Pentecostal movement is something which God has started at high speed, but the faster we go the greater the need of holiness. The more power we have, the more we need to have every obstacle cleared out of the way. That which cannot be noticed in an old dead church can wreck a revival in a Pentecostal church. May God give us holiness with our Pentecost, for we surely need it. No revival can continue with the blessing of God upon it that does not have a high standard of holiness." – Donald Gee

"Do the Pentecostals look back with shame as they remember when they dwelt across the theological tracks, but with the glory of the Lord in their midst? When they had a normal church life, which meant nights of prayers, followed by signs and wonders, and diverse miracles, and genuine gifts of the Holy Ghost? When they were not clock watchers, and their meetings lasted for hours, saturated with holy power? Have we no tears for these memories, or shame that our children know nothing of such power?"
- Leonard Ravenhill

"The very truths that gave birth to the Pentecostal movement are today generally rejected as too strong." – Frank Bartleman

"Praying without faith is like trying to cut with a blunt knife-much labor expended to little purpose." - James 0. Fraser

"How little chance the Holy Ghost has nowadays. The churches and missionary societies have so bound Him in red tape that they practically ask Him to sit in a corner while they do the work themselves." - C.T. Studd

"The form of the church in any age is prescribed by the Holy Spirit." - A. Skevington Wood.

"The GREATEST HINDRANCES to the evangelization of the world are those within the Church."
- John R. Mott

"Let us advance upon our knees." - Joseph Neesima

"You must GO forward on your knees." - J. Hudson Taylor

"Satan does not care how many people read about prayer if only he can keep them from praying. When a church is truly convinced that prayer is where the action is, that church will so construct its corporate activities that the prayer program will have the highest priority." - Paul E. Billheimer

"Ministers who do not spend two hours a day in prayer are not worth a dime a dozen - degrees or no degrees." - Leonard Ravenhill

"On the ground of our own goodness we cannot expect to have our prayers answered. But Jesus is worthy, and for His sake we may have our prayers answered. There is nothing too choice, too costly, or too great for God to give Him. He is worthy. He is the spotless, holy Child, who under all circumstances acted according to the mind of God. And if we trust in Him, if we hide in Him, if we put Him forward and ourselves in the background, depend on Him and plead His name, we may expect to have our prayers answered." - George Muller

"The feeling of need and not the force of habit will make thee a sincere suppliant." - Evan Roberts

"Prayer is buried, and lost and Heaven weeps. If all prayed the wicked would flee from our midst or to the refuge." - Evan Roberts

"Prayer is the midwife of mercy, that helps to bring it forth." - Matthew Henry

"You may as soon find a living man without breath as a living saint without prayer." - Matthew Henry

"The prayers and supplications that Christ offered up were, joined with strong cries and tears, herein setting us example not only to pray, but to be fervent and importunate in prayer. How many dry prayers, how few wet ones, do we offer up to God!" - Matthew Henry

"At God's counter there are no " SALE DAYS," for the price of revival is ever the same -TRAVAIL. - Leonard Ravenhill

" The depth of a revival will be determined exactly by the depth of the spirit of repentance." - Frank Bartleman

"'Where there is no vision, the people perish' (Prov 29:18). Where there is no vision of ETERNITY, there is no prayer for the PERISHING." - David Smithers

"Workers that are strangers to knee work may work up a temporary excitement, but never will be able to secure the copious outpourings of genuine revival power." - Martin Wells Knapp

"When God is about to give His people the expected good, He pours out a Spirit of prayer, and it is a good sign that He is coming towards them in mercy. Then when you see the expected end approaching, then you shall call upon Me. Note, promises are given not to supersede, but to quicken and encourage prayer: and when deliverance is coming we must by prayer go forth to meet it. When Daniel understood the 70 years were near expiring, then he set his face with more fervency than ever to seek the Lord (Dan. 9:2, 3)." - Matthew Henry

"It is a sin against God not to pray for the Israel of God, especially for those of them that are under our charge. Good men are afraid of the guilt of omissions ( I Samuel 12)." - Matthew Henry

"DON'T COME TO ME WITH YOUR RUBBISH that there is no emotion in religion. You cannot have real religion without emotion. In Scotland they are crying for a revival, but they want a revival without emotion, and they will never get it. There never has been a revival without emotion and there never will be." - Donald Gee

"Whenever you touch reality in the spiritual realm, you touch things that are so vital that any normal, healthy person cannot fail to be moved. If we have today such ministry in our churches that men and women cannot be moved, there is something wrong with our preaching." - Donald Gee

" It seems to me that there are but few who really live with a passion for God-especially a passion just to be with Him. Today there is such a noise coming up before the throne of the Most High-the clamor of so-called praise, singing, and joyful shouting. But I wonder if the same people who love to sing and shout, loudly exclaiming the the praises of God, really have such an intense glory in their secret life with the Lord. When the meeting's over and there's no one there to listen except the only One who matters, do you still have that same passionate joy in your spirit, just to be alone with the Living God?" - Keith Green

"It is in the field of prayer that life's critical battles are lost or won. We must conquer all our circumstances there. We must first of all bring them there. We must survey them there. We must master them there. In prayer we bring our spiritual enemies into the Presence of God and we fight them there. Have you tried that? Or have you been satisfied to meet and fight your foes in the open spaces of the world?" - J. H. Jowett

"He that leaves off prayer leaves off the fear of God. ‘You cast off fear, and restrain prayer before God ‘ (Job 15: 4). A man that leaves off prayer is capable of any wickedness. When Saul had given up inquiring of God he went to the witch of Endor" - Thomas Watson

"A great many people do not pray because they do not feel any sense of need. The sign that the Holy Spirit is in us is that we realize that we are empty, not that we are full. We have a sense of absolute need. We come across people who try us, circumstances that are difficult, conditions that are perplexing, and all these things awaken a dumb sense of need, which is a sign that the Holy Spirit is there. If we are ever free from the sense of need, it is not because the Holy Spirit has satisfied us, but because we have been satisfied with as much as we have. ‘A man's reach should exceed his grasp.’ A sense of need is one of the greatest benedictions because it keeps our life rightly related to Jesus Christ." - Oswald Chambers

"I have set watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem; they shall never hold their peace day or night. You who make mention of the LORD, do not keep silent, And give Him no rest until He establishes and makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth." - Isaiah 62:6-7
"The angel fetched Peter out of prison, but it was prayer that fetched the angel."-Thomas Watson

"God never denied that soul anything that went as far as heaven to ask for it." - John Trapp

"All God’s giants have been weak men, who did great things for God because they believed that God would be with them." - Hudson Taylor

"Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer."
- John Bunyan

"We know the utility of prayer from the efforts of the wicked spirits to distract us during the divine office; and we experience the fruit of prayer in the defeat of our enemies."- John Climacus

"Pray often; for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan." - John Bunyan

"No one is a firmer believer in the power of prayer than the devil; not that he practices it, but he suffers from it." -Guy H. King

"When we go to God by prayer, the devil knows we go to fetch strength against him, and therefore he opposeth us all he can." - Richard Sibbes

"Satan strikes either at the root of faith or at the root of diligence." - John Livingstone

"The effectiveness of the prayer program of a church will be in direct proportion to the depth of the individual prayer life of its members. Without a deep devotional life on the part of the participants, the group cannot muster great prayer power." - Paul E. Billheimer

"Since the days of Pentecost, has the whole church ever put aside every other work and waited upon Him for ten days, that the Spirit’s power might be manifested? We give too much attention to method and machinery and resources, and too little to the source of power." -Hudson Taylor

"That, which begins not with prayer, seldom winds up with comfort." - John Flavel

"Oh, that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!" - Jeremiah 9:1
"My soul will weep in secret for your pride; my eyes will weep bitterly and run down with tears, because the LORD'S flock has been taken captive." - Jeremiah 13:17
"I have never known a person sweat blood; but I have known a person pray till the blood started from his nose. And I have known persons to pray till they were all wet with perspiration, in the coldest weather in winter. I have known persons pray for hours, till their strength was all exhausted with the agony of their minds. Such prayers prevailed with God." – Charles G. Finney

"Christ was in an agony at prayer (Luke 22: 44). Many when they pray are rather in a lethargy, than in an agony. When they are about the world they are all fire; when they are at prayer, they are all Ice." - Thomas Watson

"If I cannot hear 'the sound of rain' long before the rain falls, and then go out to some hilltop of the Spirit, as near to my God as I can and have faith to wait there with my face between my knees, though six times or sixty times I am told 'there is nothing', till at last there arises a little cloud out of the sea, then I know nothing of Calvary love." (Read 1 Kings 18:41-45). - Amy Carmichael

"It will not do for us to go to Heaven by ourselves. We must be on fire, friends for saving others. To be workers will draw heaven down and will draw others to heaven . Without a readiness to work, the Spirit of prayer will not come." - Evan Roberts

"Prayer is the secret of power." - Evan Roberts

Secret prayer is the spring-time of life." - Evan Roberts

"A man who is intimate with God will never be intimidated by men." – Leonard Ravenhill

"It will never be altogether well with us till we convert the universe into a prayer room, and continue in the Spirit as we go from place to place.... The prayer hour is left standing before God till the other hours come and stand beside it; then, if they are found to be a harmonious sisterhood, the prayer is granted." - George Bowen

"The main lesson about prayer is just this: Do it! Do it! Do it! You want to be taught to pray. My answer is pray and never faint, and then you shall never fail. There is no peradventure. You cannot fail.... A sense of real want is at the very root of prayer." - John Laidlaw

"Prayer is the means by which we obtain all the graces that rain down upon us from the divine Fountain of Goodness and Love." - Laurence Scupoli

"None can believe how powerful prayer is, and what it is able to effect, but those who have learned it by experience. It is a great matter when in extreme need to take hold on prayer. I know whenever I have prayed earnestly that I have been amply heard, and have obtained more than I prayed for. God indeed sometimes delayed, but at last He came." – Martin Luther

"It has often been said that prayer is the greatest force in the universe. This is no exaggeration. It will bear constant repetition. In this atomic age when forces are being released that stagger the thought and imagination of man, it is well to remember that prayer transcends all other forces." - F. J. Huegel

"So I sought for a man among them who would make a wall, and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found no one." - Ezekiel 22:30
"If the church would only awaken to her responsibility of intercession, we could well evangelize the world in a short time. It is not God's plan that the world be merely evangelized ultimately. It should be evangelized in every generation. There should be a constant gospel witness in every corner of the world so that no sinner need close his eyes in death without hearing the gospel, the good news of salvation through Christ." -T. A. Hegre

"Hell is larger today than it was yesterday, because many of us have failed to pray."
- David Smithers

"There is no power like that of prevailing prayer, of Abraham pleading for Sodom, Jacob wrestling in the stillness of the night, Moses standing in the breach, Hannah intoxicated with sorrow, David heartbroken with remorse and grief, Jesus in sweat of blood. Add to this list from the records of the church your personal observation and experience, and always there is the cost of passion unto blood. Such prayer prevails. It turns ordinary mortals into men of power. It brings power. It brings fire. It brings rain. It brings life. It brings God." -Samuel Chadwick

"To strive in prayer means to struggle through those hindrances which would restrain or even prevent us entirely from continuing in persevering prayer. It means to be so watchful at all times that we can notice when we become slothful in prayer and that we go to the Spirit of prayer to have this remedied. In this struggle, too, the decisive factor is the Spirit of prayer." - 0. Hallesby

"If we do not thirst here we shall thirst when it is too late; if we do not thirst as David did, ‘My soul thirsteth for God’ (Ps. 42: 2), we shall thirst as Dives did for a drop of water." -Thomas Watson

"Once a poor soul entered the school of prayer after his arrival in hell. He asked for relief from his agony; it was refused. He asked that a beggar warn his brothers; he was turned down. He was praying to Abraham, a man; he could not locate God. He dared not ask to get out; he plainly knew that he was beyond all hope. Prayerless on earth, unanswered in hell, he suffers on as the man who tried to learn to pray too late." - Cameron V. Thompson

"Of all the duties enjoined by Christianity none is more essential and yet more neglected than prayer. Most people consider the exercise a fatiguing ceremony, which they are justified in abridging as much as possible. Even those whose profession or fears lead them to pray, pray with such languor and wanderings of mind that their prayers, far from drawing down blessings, only increase their condemnation." - Fenelon

"How hard is it sometimes to get leave of hearts to seek God! Jesus Christ went more willingly to the cross than we do to the throne of grace." - Thomas Watson

"The Western church has lost the prayer stamina of the mission churches in Asia, Africa, South America, Indonesia, and those of the underground church in many parts of the world. Yes, we are great organizers, but poor pray-ers." - Paul E. Billheimer

"The prayer of faith is the only power in the universe to which the great Jehovah yields. Prayer is the sovereign remedy." - Robert Hall

"I ought to pray before seeing any one. Often when I sleep long, or meet with others early, it is eleven or twelve o'clock before I begin secret prayer. This is a wretched system. It is unscriptural. Christ arose before day and went into a solitary place. David says: ‘Early will I seek thee’, ‘Thou shalt early hear my voice.’ Family prayer loses much of its power and sweetness, and I can do no good to those who come to seek from me. The conscience feels guilty, the soul unfed, the lamp not trimmed. Then when in secret prayer the soul is often out of tune. 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." - Robert Murray M'Cheyne

"The men who have done the most for God in this world have been early on their knees. He who fritters away the early morning, its opportunity and freshness, in other pursuits than seeking God will make poor headway seeking Him the rest of the day. If God is not first in our thoughts and efforts in the morning, He will be in the last place the remainder of the day." - E. M. Bounds

"Bear up the hands that hang down, by faith and prayer; support the tottering knees. Have you any days of fasting and prayer? Storm the throne of grace and persevere therein, and mercy will come down." - John Wesley

"Before the great revival in Gallneukirchen broke out, Martin Boos spent hours and days and often nights in lonely agonies of intercession. Afterwards, when he preached, his words were as flame, and the hearts of the people as grass." - D. M. McIntyre

"0h 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 A. Bonar

"How many Christians there are who cannot pray, and who seek by effort, resolve, joining prayer circles, etc., to cultivate in themselves the "holy art of intercession," and all to no purpose. Here for them and for all is the only secret of a real prayer life-"Be filled with the Spirit," who is "the Spirit of grace and supplication." - J. Stuart Holden

"Whole days and WEEKS have I spent prostrate on the ground in silent or vocal prayer." - George Whitefteld

"All decays begin in the closet; no heart thrives with out much secret converse with God, and nothing will make amends for the want of it." - John Berridge

"No erudition, no purity of diction, no width of mental outlook, no flowers of eloquence, no grace of person can atone for lack of fire. Prayer ascends by fire. Flame gives prayer access as well as wings, acceptance as well as energy. There is no incense without fire; no prayer without flame." - E. M. Bounds

"Truth without enthusiasm, morality without emotion, ritual without soul, are things Christ unsparingly condemned. Destitute of fire, they are nothing more than a godless philosophy, an ethical system, and a superstition." - Samuel Chadwick

"Carnal reason is an enemy to faith: it is ever crossing and contradicting it. It will never be well with thee, Christian, so long as thou art swayed by carnal reason, and you rely more upon thy five senses, than upon the four Evangelists. As the body lives by breathing, so the soul lives by believing." - Thomas Brooks

"Do not we rest in our day too much on the arm of flesh? Cannot the same wonders be done now as of old? Do not the eyes of the Lord still run to and fro throughout the whole earth to show Himself strong on behalf of those who put their trust in Him? Oh, that God would give me more practical faith in Him! Where is now the Lord God of Elijah? He is waiting for Elijah to call on Him." - James Gilmour of Mongolia

"We need a Heaven-sent revival, a burning fire from on high,
A purifying passion and a forsaking of our stubborn pride.
We need a vision of eternity, of Hell and the Judgement Day,
A fervent love for our Savior, that will gladly serve and obey.
We need a Pentecostal purging and a breaking deep within,
A vision of God Almighty and a river of tears for our nations sin.
We need a Heaven-sent revival, a burning fire set ablaze.
Yet, we'll never see such glory, until the Church begins to pray." - David Smithers

"Beware of reasoning about God's Word - obey It." - Oswald Chambers

"A revival of religion presupposes a declension." - Charles G. Finney

"A baptism of holiness, a demonstration of godly living is the crying need of our day."
- Duncan Campbell

Could a mariner sit idle if he heard the drowning cry?
Could a doctor sit in comfort and just let his patients die?
Could a fireman sit idle, let men burn and give no hand?
Can you sit at ease in Zion with the world around you DAMNED? - Leonard Ravenhill

"How shall I feel at the judgment, if multitudes of missed opportunities pass before me in full review, and all my excuses prove to be disguises of my cowardice and pride?" - W. E. Sangster

"It is better to have God’s approval, than the world’s applause: there is a time shortly coming when a smile from God's face will be infinitely better than all the applause of men: how sweet will that word be, ‘Well done, thou good and faithful servant.’ (Matt. 25: 21)." - Thomas Watson

"The Church has halted somewhere between Calvary and Pentecost." - Joe Brice"

"Until self-effacing men return again to spiritual leadership, we may expect a progressive deterioration in the quality of popular Christianity year after year till we reach the point where the grieved Holy Spirit withdraws-like the Shekinah from the temple."- A. W. Tozer

"I have need of nothing." -The Laodicean Church

"A man can not lead others where he is not willing to go himself. Therefore, beware of the prayerless church leader who no longer readily admits his own need for more of the person and power of Jesus Christ. Only a seeking, praying heart can truly encourage spiritual HUNGER in others!" – David Smithers

"God will fill the hungry because He Himself has stirred up the hunger. As in the case of prayer, when God prepares the heart to pray, He prepares His ear to hear (Ps. 10: 17). So in the case of spiritual hunger, when God prepares the heart to hunger, He will prepare His hand to fill." - Thomas Watson

"Every thing that a man leans upon but God, will be a dart that will certainly pierce his heart through and through. He, who leans only upon Christ, lives the highest, choicest, safest, and sweetest life." - Thomas Brooks

"The same church members who yell like Comanche Indians at a ball game on Saturday sit like wooden Indians in church on Sunday." - Vance Havner

God never intended His Church to be a refrigerator in which to preserve perishable piety. He intended it to be an incubator in which to hatch out converts." - F. Lincicome

"There can be no revival when Mr. Amen and Mr. Wet-Eyes are not found in the audience." - Charles G. Finney

"A well-grounded assurance is always attended with three fair handmaids: love, humility and holy joy." - Thomas Brooks

"Come as the fire, and purge our hearts with sacrificial flame; Let our whole soul an offering be To our Redeemer's Name." - Andrew Reed

Give me the love that leads the way, The faith that nothing can dismay, The hope no disappointments tire, The passion that will burn like fire, Let me not sink to be a clod: Make me Thy fuel, Flame of God. - Amy Carmichael

"I cannot work my soul to save, For that my Lord hath done; But I will work like any slave, For the love of God's dear Son." – Unknown

"The Primary qualification for a missionary is not love for souls, as we so often hear, but love for Christ." - Vance Havner

"We are not built for ourselves, but for God. Not for service for God, but for God."
- Oswald Chambers

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

"Love is kindled in a flame, and ardency is its life. Flame is the air which true Christian experience breathes. It feeds on fire; it can withstand anything rather than a feeble flame; but when the surrounding atmosphere is frigid or lukewarm, it dies, chilled and starved to its vitals. True prayer MUST be aflame." - E. M. Bounds

"Revival and evangelism, although closely linked, are not to be confused. Revival is an experience in the Church; evangelism is an expression of the Church." - Paul S. Rees

"Apostolic preaching is not marked by its beautiful diction, or literary polish, or Cleverness of expression, but Operates "in demonstration of the Spirit and of power." - Arthur Wallis

"No man is ever fully accepted until he has, first of all, been utterly rejected." - Author unknown

"Keep us little and unknown, prized and loved by God alone." – Charles Wesley

"The only saving faith is that which casts itself on God for life or death." -Martin Luther

"Tearless hearts can never be the heralds of the Passion." - J. H. Jowett

"Brethren, it is just so much humbug to be waiting for this night after night, month after month, if we ourselves are not right with God. I must ask myself "Is my heart pure? Are my hands clean?" - Comment from the Hebrides' Revival

"God's cause is committed to men; God commits Himself to men. Praying men are the vice-regents of God; they do His work and carry out His plans." - E. M. Bounds

"Prayer is the acid test of devotion." - Samuel Chadwick

"It is well to get rid of the idea that faith is a matter of spiritual heroism only for a few select spirits. There are heroes of faith, but faith is not only for heroes. It is a matter of spiritual manhood. It is a matter of maturity." - P. T. Forsyth

"Revival comes from heaven when heroic souls enter the conflict determined to win or die-or if need be, to win and die! "The kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force." - Charles G. Finney

"What are Christians put into the world for except to do the impossible in the strength of God." - General S. C. Armstrong

"All the resources of the Godhead are at our disposal!" - Jonathan Goforth

"Prayer and Pains, through faith in Jesus Christ will do anything." - John Elliot

"God loves with a great love the man whose heart is bursting with a passion for the IMPOSSIBLE." - William Booth

"I have found that there are three stages in every great work of God: first, it is impossible, then it is difficult, then it is done." - Hudson Taylor

"Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible."- Corrie ten Boom

"We never test the resources of God until we attempt the IMPOSSIBLE." - F. B. Meyer

"Until we reach for the IMPOSSIBLE through fervent, faith-filled prayer, we will NEVER fulfill our created purpose!" - David Smithers

" Nothing is IMPOSSIBLE with GOD." - Luke 1: 37
"The least sin should humble the soul, but certainly the greatest sin should never discourage the soul, much less should it work the soul to despair. Despairing Judas perished, whereas the murderers of Christ, believing on Him, were saved."- Thomas Brooks

"A church without an intelligent, well-organized, and systematic prayer program is simply operating a religious treadmill." - Paul E. Billheimer

"God will do nothing but in answer to prayer." - John Wesley

"The greatest thing anyone can do for God and for man is to pray. You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed. Prayer is striking the winning blow ... service is gathering up the results." - S. D. Gordon

"Don’t pray when you feel like it. Have an appointment with the Lord and keep it. A man is powerful on his knees." - Corrie ten Boom

"God never ceases to speak to us, but the noise of the world without and the tumult of our passions within bewilder us and prevent us from listening to him." - Fenelon

"God will either give you what you ask, or something far better." - Robert Murray McCheyne

"Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?" - Corrie ten Boom

"Jesus Christ carries on intercession for us in heaven; the Holy Ghost carries on intercession in us on earth; and we the saints have to carry on intercession for all men." - Oswald Chambers

"Our prayers lay the track down which God’s power can come. Like a mighty locomotive, his power is irresistible, but it cannot reach us without rails." - Watchman Nee

"Pray not for crutches but for wings." - Phillips Brooks

"Prayer does not enable us to do a greater work for God. Prayer is a greater work for God." - Thomas Chalmers

"Prayer is not learned in a classroom but in the closet." - E. M. Bounds

"Prayer is not monologue, but dialogue. God’s voice in response to mine is its most essential part." - Andrew Murray

"Prayer is weakness leaning on omnipotence." - W. S. Bowden

"Prayerlessness is a sin." - Corrie ten Boom

"Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon his knees." - William Cowper

"Some men will spin out a long prayer telling God who and what he is, or they pray out a whole system of divinity. Some people preach, others exhort the people, till everybody wishes they would stop, and God wishes so, too, most undoubtedly." - Charles G. Finney

"Some people think God does not like to be troubled with our constant coming and asking. The way to trouble God is not to come at all." - D. L. Moody

"Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still." - E. M. Bounds

"The Christian on his knees sees more than the philosopher on tiptoe." - D. L. Moody

"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

"There is nothing that makes us love a man so much as praying for him." - William Law

"We are too busy to pray, and so we are too busy to have power. We have a great deal of activity, but we accomplish little; many services but few conversions; much machinery but few results." - R. A. Torrey

"You shall find this to be God’s usual course: not to give his children the taste of his delights till they begin to sweat in seeking after them." - Richard Baxter

“It is obvious that Paul did not regard prayer as supplemental, but as fundamental—not something to be added to his work but the very matrix out of which his work was born. He was a man of action because he was a man of prayer. It was probably his prayer even more than his preaching that produced the kind of leaders we meet in his letters.”
- Oswald Sanders, from Dynamic Spiritual Leadership

Prayer is a weapon, a mighty weapon in a terrible conflict. Our prayers are to be a CONTINUAL, conscious, earnest effort of battle, the battle against WHATEVER IS NOT GOD'S WILL. P.T. Forsyth

PRAYER IS THE CUTTING EDGE OF ANY WORK FOR GOD. It is not a supplemental spiritual rocket to get some well-meaning effort off the ground. Prayer is the work and the working power in any spiritual ministry. It should be the central thrust. The spiritual history of a mission or a church is written in its prayer life. The expression of corporate life is not measured in statistics, but in prayer depth.

The concept that treats prayer as if it were merely a supplemental booster in getting a project off the ground makes the project primary and the prayer secondary. Prayer was never meant to be incidental to the work of God. It is the work. Prayer is the working power of all that God would do through His people. Without prayer and waiting on God for Him to reveal His will, our well-meant attempts may look impressive, but they have no power to move towards God's goals. Supplementing our self-conceived ideas with prayer will not transpose them into divine purposings. Nothing of God's will is properly and effectually executed that is not first begun and then carried out through prayer. Lynne Hammond

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"Work as if everything depended upon your work, and pray as if everything depended upon your prayer." - William Booth

"A minister, who prays not, who is not in love with prayer, is not a minister of the Church of God. He is a dry tree, which occupies in vain a place in Christ's garden. He is an enemy, and not a father, of the people. He is a stranger, who has taken the place of the shepherd, and to whom the salvation of the flock is an indifferent thing." – Thomas Coke

"Do the Pentecostals look back with shame as they remember when they dwelt across the theological tracks, but with the glory of the Lord in their midst? When they had a normal church life, which meant nights of prayers, followed by signs and wonders, and diverse miracles, and genuine gifts of the Holy Ghost? When they were not clock watchers, and their meetings lasted for hours, saturated with holy power? Have we no tears for these memories, or shame that our children know nothing of such power?"
- Leonard Ravenhill

"Ministers who do not spend two hours a day in prayer are not worth a dime a dozen - degrees or no degrees." - Leonard Ravenhill

"A man can not lead others where he is not willing to go himself. Therefore, beware of the prayerless church leader who no longer readily admits his own need for more of the person and power of Jesus Christ. Only a seeking, praying heart can truly encourage spiritual HUNGER in others!" – David Smithers

"It must be remembered that there is spiritual wickedness at the back of all confusion and discord in the work of God. The servant of Christ must, therefore, practically recognize that his warfare is with these satanic beings and must be waged on his knees." - D. E. Hoste

"The neglected heart will soon be a heart overrun with worldly thoughts; the neglected life will soon become a moral chaos; the church that is not jealously protected by mighty intercession and sacrificial labors will before long become the abode of every evil bird and the hiding place for unsuspected corruption. The creeping wilderness will soon take over that church that trusts in its own strength and forgets to watch and pray." - A. W. Tozer

"We have not been men of prayer. The spirit of prayer has slumbered among us. The closet has been too little frequented and delighted in. We have allowed business, study or active labor to interfere with our closet-hours. And the feverish atmosphere in which both the church and the nation are enveloped has found its way into our prayer closets…" - Andrew Bonar

"Why is there so little forethought in the laying out of time and employment, so as secure a large portion of each day for prayer? Why is there so much speaking, yet so little prayer? Why Is there so much running to and fro to meetings, conventions, fellowship gatherings and yet so little time for prayer'? Brethren, why so many meetings with our fellow men and so few meetings with God?" - Andrew Bonar

"A godly man is a praying man. As soon as grace is poured in, prayer is poured out. Prayer is the soul's traffic with Heaven; God comes down to us by His Spirit, and we go up to Him by prayer." - Thomas Watson

"Men of prayer are men of faith; closet supplicants make faith’s heroes." – The War Cry (1895)

"If I am concerned that my flock be men and women of prayer, then, as their pastor, I must lead the way; apathy in me will produce apathy in them. The church prayer meeting ought to be the best attended in the week, and if it is, success will follow the ministry of the Word at the weekends. I would rather a thousand times set men and women to pray than teach them to preach." " - J. D. Drysdale

"Groanings which cannot be uttered are often prayers which cannot be refused." - C. H. Spurgeon

"God's greatest gifts to man come through travail. Whether we look into the spiritual or temporal sphere, can we discover anything, any great reform, any beneficial discovery, any soul-awakening revival, which did not come through the tolls and tears, the vigils and blood-shedding of men and woman whose sufferings were the pangs of Its birth?" - F. B. Meyer

"Continuing instant in prayer (Rom. 12:12). The Greek is a metaphor taken from hunting dogs that never give over the game till they have their prey." - Thomas Brooks
"If you are strangers to prayer you are strangers to power." - Billy Sunday

"All prayer is hidden. It is behind a closed door. The best spade diggers go down into deep ditches out of sight. There are numbers of surface workers, but few who in self-obliteration toil alone with God." - Seth Joshua

"Pray, O pray, my brother! never, never quit your hold of the fullness of God; for time is nearly over, and if this fullness be lost it will be lost forever. I am astonished that we do not pray more, yea, that we do not live every moment as on the brink of the eternal world, and in the blessed expectation of that glorious country." - William Bramwell

"Many who do come into the secret place, and who are God's children, enter it and leave it just as they entered, without ever so much as realizing the presence of God. And there are some believers who, even when they do obtain a blessing, and get a little quickening of soul, leave the secret place without seeking more. They go to their chamber, and there get into the secret place, but then, as soon as they have got near to Him, they think they have been peculiarly blessed, and leave their chamber, and go back into the world… Oh, how is it that the Lord's own people have so little perseverance? How is it that when they do enter into their place of prayer to be alone, they are so easily persuaded to be turned away empty; instead of wrestling with God to pour out His Spirit, they retire from the secret place without the answer, and submit to it as being God's will." – William C. Burns

"A man may study because his brain is hungry for knowledge, even Bible knowledge. But he prays because his soul is hungry for God." - Leonard Ravenhill

"They who pray not, know nothing of God, and know nothing of the state of their own souls." – Adam Clarke

"You must GO forward on your knees." - J. Hudson Taylor

"Satan does not care how many people read about prayer if only he can keep them from praying. When a church is truly convinced that prayer is where the action is, that church will so construct its corporate activities that the prayer program will have the highest priority." - Paul E. Billheimer

"On the ground of our own goodness we cannot expect to have our prayers answered. But Jesus is worthy, and for His sake we may have our prayers answered. There is nothing too choice, too costly, or too great for God to give Him. He is worthy. He is the spotless, holy Child, who under all circumstances acted according to the mind of God. And if we trust in Him, if we hide in Him, if we put Him forward and ourselves in the background, depend on Him and plead His name, we may expect to have our prayers answered." - George Muller

"You may as soon find a living man without breath as a living saint without prayer." - Matthew Henry

"It is in the field of prayer that life's critical battles are lost or won. We must conquer all our circumstances there. We must first of all bring them there. We must survey them there. We must master them there. In prayer we bring our spiritual enemies into the Presence of God and we fight them there. Have you tried that? Or have you been satisfied to meet and fight your foes in the open spaces of the world?" - J. H. Jowett

"He that leaves off prayer leaves off the fear of God. ‘You cast off fear, and restrain prayer before God ‘ (Job 15: 4). A man that leaves off prayer is capable of any wickedness. When Saul had given up inquiring of God he went to the witch of Endor" - Thomas Watson

"The angel fetched Peter out of prison, but it was prayer that fetched the angel."-Thomas Watson

"God never denied that soul anything that went as far as heaven to ask for it." - John Trapp

"Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer."
- John Bunyan

"Pray often; for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan." - John Bunyan

"No one is a firmer believer in the power of prayer than the devil; not that he practices it, but he suffers from it." -Guy H. King

"When we go to God by prayer, the devil knows we go to fetch strength against him, and therefore he opposeth us all he can." - Richard Sibbes

"That, which begins not with prayer, seldom winds up with comfort." - John Flavel

"I have never known a person sweat blood; but I have known a person pray till the blood started from his nose. And I have known persons to pray till they were all wet with perspiration, in the coldest weather in winter. I have known persons who pray for hours, till their strength was all exhausted with the agony of their minds. Such prayers prevailed with God." – Charles G. Finney

"There is no power like that of prevailing prayer, of Abraham pleading for Sodom, Jacob wrestling in the stillness of the night, Moses standing in the breach, Hannah intoxicated with sorrow, David heartbroken with remorse and grief, Jesus in sweat of blood. Add to this list from the records of the church your personal observation and experience, and always there is the cost of passion unto blood. Such prayer prevails. It turns ordinary mortals into men of power. It brings power. It brings fire. It brings rain. It brings life. It brings God." -Samuel Chadwick

"I ought to pray before seeing any one. Often when I sleep long, or meet with others early, it is eleven or twelve o'clock before I begin secret prayer. This is a wretched system. It is unscriptural. Christ arose before day and went into a solitary place. David says: ‘Early will I seek thee’, ‘Thou shalt early hear my voice.’ Family prayer loses much of its power and sweetness, and I can do no good to those who come to seek from me. The conscience feels guilty, the soul unfed, the lamp not trimmed. Then when in secret prayer the soul is often out of tune. 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." - Robert Murray M'Cheyne

"The men who have done the most for God in this world have been early on their knees. He who fritters away the early morning, its opportunity and freshness, in other pursuits than seeking God will make poor headway seeking Him the rest of the day. If God is not first in our thoughts and efforts in the morning, He will be in the last place the remainder of the day." - E. M. Bounds

"Before the great revival in Gallneukirchen broke out, Martin Boos spent hours and days and often nights in lonely agonies of intercession. Afterwards, when he preached, his words were as flame, and the hearts of the people as grass." - D. M. McIntyre

"0h 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 A. Bonar

"Whole days and WEEKS have I spent prostrate on the ground in silent or vocal prayer." - George Whitefteld

"Prayer is the acid test of devotion." - Samuel Chadwick

"God will do nothing but in answer to prayer." - John Wesley

"The greatest thing anyone can do for God and for man is to pray. You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed. Prayer is striking the winning blow ... service is gathering up the results." - S. D. Gordon

"Our prayers lay the tracks down upon which God’s power can come. Like a mighty locomotive, his power is irresistible, but it cannot reach us without rails." - Watchman Nee

"Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon his knees." - William Cowper

"Prayer is weakness leaning on omnipotence." - W. S. Bowden

"Some people think God does not like to be troubled with our constant coming and asking. The way to trouble God is not to come at all." - D. L. Moody

"Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still." - 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

"You shall find this to be God’s usual course: not to give his children the taste of his delights till they begin to sweat in seeking after them." - Richard Baxter

Prayer is a weapon, a mighty weapon in a terrible conflict. Our prayers are to be a CONTINUAL, conscious, earnest effort of battle, the battle against whatever is not god's will. - P.T. Forsyth

"It is morally impossible to exercise trust in God while there is failure to wait upon Him for guidance and direction. The man who does not learn to wait upon the Lord and have his thoughts molded by Him will never possess that steady purpose and calm trust, which is essential to the exercise of wise influence upon others, in times of crisis and difficulty." - D. E. Hoste

“If you are bent on prayer, the devil will not leave you alone. He will molest you, tantalize you, block you, and will surely find some hindrances, big or little or both. And we sometimes fail because we are ignorant of his devices…I do not think he minds our praying about things if we leave it at that. What he minds, and opposes steadily, is the prayer that prays on until it is prayed through, assured of the answer.” - Mary Warburton Booth

“I myself, for instance, am not especially gifted, and am shy by nature, but my gracious and merciful God and Father inclined Himself to me, and when I was weak in faith He strengthened me while I was still young. He taught me in my helplessness to rest on Him, and to pray even about little things in which another might have felt able to help himself.” - James Hudson Taylor

"Do not have your concert first, and then tune your instrument afterwards. Begin the day with the Word of God and prayer, and get first of all into harmony with Him.” –James Hudson Taylor

“I have seen many men work without praying, though I have never seen any good come out of it; but I have never seen a man pray without working.” - James Hudson Taylor

“The men that will change the colleges and seminaries represented here are the men that will spend the most time alone with God…It takes time for the fires to burn. It takes time for God to draw near and for us to know that He is there. It takes time to assimilate His truth. You ask me, How much time? I do not know. I know it means time enough to forget time.” - John R. Mott

“This season of waiting is always an essential qualification for successful service. God would have His children realize the utter inadequacy of all human means to accomplish His gigantic purposes, that thus the praise and glory might be afterwards ascribed exclusively to Him. The disciples were given ten days to review the field of battle, to recognize the difficulties that bristled round on every side, to measure the adversaries' strength, and to understand their own helplessness and weakness; thus were they driven to their knees in earnest, anxious prayer. Then came the answer. The promise was fulfilled, and the power stored up in the almighty Savior was brought down to His disciples in the person of the Holy Spirit.” -Hugh D. Brown

“The reason why many fail in battle is because they wait until the hour of battle. The reason why others succeed is because they have gained their victory on their knees long before the battle came...Anticipate your battles; fight them on your knees before temptation comes, and you will always have victory.” - R. A. Torrey

“Elijah on Carmel did not only pray; he kept his eyes open to see the rising cloud.” – Theodore L. Cuyler

“To arouse one man or woman to the tremendous power of prayer for others, is worth more than the combined activity of a score of average Christians.” - A. J. Gordon

"Are you living for the things you are praying for?" - Austin Phelps

“A prayerless man is proud and independent, and any church that neglects corporate prayer is sadly no better. Only God's humble and needy children take the time to pray. Everyone else is just going through the motions and naively trusting in their own strength!” –David Smithers

"The time factor in prayer is very important. In the exercise of prayer God is not tied to our clocks. Neither is He at the other end of the phone to receive and answer our two-minute calls. It takes time to know the mind of God, to shut out the material things of earth and to be wholly abandoned." -Hugh C. C. McCullough

"When we get a glimpse of the worth of a soul, and begin to realize that we stand between lost men and Heaven or Hell, then we shall have real concern and the Lord will hear our prayers of intercession." - J. W. Mahood

"He can do all things who prays well. All soul-winners have conquered on their knees. Wherever the secret of prevailing prayer is found, something supernatural will come to pass." - G. F. Oliver

"The true man of God is heartsick, grieved at the worldliness of the Church...grieved at the toleration of sin in the Church, grieved at the prayerlessness in the Church. He is disturbed that the corporate prayer of the Church no longer pulls down the strongholds of the devil." - Leonard Ravenhill

"We must continue in prayer if we are to get an outpouring of the Spirit. Christ says there are some things we shall not get, unless we pray and fast, yes, "prayer and fasting." We must control the flesh and abstain from whatever hinders direct fellowship with God."- Andrew Bonar

"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."-Samuel Zwemer

"This much is sure in all churches, forgetting party labels; the smallest meeting numerically is the prayer- meeting. If weak in prayer we are weak everywhere." - Leonard Ravenhill

"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." - A. W. Tozer

"How long will it take us to learn that our shortest route to the man next door is by way of God's throne? – A. T. Pierson

"Wherever the Church is aroused and the world's wickedness arrested, somebody has been praying." – A. T. Pierson

"It is a solemn thing to find oneself drawn out in prayer which knows no relief till the soul it is burdened with is born. It is no less solemn afterwards, until Christ is formed in them." – Amy Carmichael

"The evangelization of the world in this generation depends first of all upon a revival of prayer. Deeper than the need for men; deeper, far, than the need for money; aye, deep down at the bottom of our spiritless life is the need for the forgotten secret of prevailing, world-wide prayer." – Robert E. Speer

"Prayer alone will overcome the gigantic difficulties which confront the workers in every field." – John R. Mott

"Hope and confidence should not be placed in the extent and perfection of organizations, nor in the experience which has been accumulated and the agencies and methods which have been devised in a long century of missions, nor in the unusual strength of the missionary body, nor in the multitude who have been gathered from every nation and race and faith into the native Church, nor in the wonderful resources and facilities of the home Church, nor in far-sighted and comprehensive plans, nor in enthusiastic forward movements and inspiring watchwords. It is easy to magnify human personality and agencies. Prayer recognizes that God is the source of life and light and energy." – John R. Mott

"Let methods be changed, therefore, if necessary, that prayer may be given its true place. Let there be days set apart for intercession; let the original purpose of the monthly concert of prayer for missions be given a larger place; let missionary prayer cycles be used by families and by individual Christians; let the best literature on prayer be circulated among the members of the Church; let special sermons on the Subject of intercession be preached. By these and by all other practical means a larger, deeper, wider spirit of prayer should be cultivated in the churches." – John R. Mott

"The Church has not yet touched the fringe of the possibilities of intercessory prayer. Her largest victories will be witnessed when individual Christians everywhere come to recognize their priesthood unto God and day by day give themselves unto prayer." – John R. Mott

"If added power attends the united prayer of two or three, what mighty triumphs there will be when hundreds of thousands of consistent members of the Church are with one accord day by day making intercession for the extension of Christ's Kingdom." – John R. Mott

"Faith and prayer are so inter-linked that faith is prayer and prayer is faith. You cannot separate them. You could not have the one without the other." – A. Lindsay Glegg

"I believe there is one thing for which God is very angry with our land, and for which His Holy Spirit is so little among us, and that is the neglect of united prayer; the appointed means of bringing down the Holy Spirit." – Brownlow North

"The neglect of prayer proves to my mind, that there is a large amount of practical infidelity. If the people believed that there was a real, existing, personal God, they would ask Him for what they wanted, and they would get what they asked. But they do not ask, because they do not believe or expect to receive." – Brownlow North

"0h Christians, go more to the prayer-meetings…" – Brownlow North

"From the day of Pentecost, there has been not one great spiritual awakening in any land which has not begun in a union of prayer, though only among two or three. And no such outward, upward movement has continued after such prayer meetings have declined. It is in exact proportion to the maintenance of such joint and believing supplication and intercession that the Word of the Lord in any land or locality has had free course and been glorified." - A. T. Pierson

"To some of you we say, Go forward rather than pray. Think not that we would, as these words might imply, cast discredit on prayer. But, beloved our hearts are deceitful, and although we should at every moment have an upward eye and a thirsting heart for the guidance and the presence of the living God, still there are times and circumstances when it becomes almost a sin to pray. Sometimes it is unbelief that makes us pray, or rather seem to pray, else what does that word mean, ''Why criest thou unto me? speak unto the children of Israel that they go forward.'"(Ex 14:15) –William C. Burns

"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]

"Our prayers must mean something to us if they are to mean anything to God" - Maltbie D. Babcock

"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." - J. Sidlow Baxter

"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." - Henry Ward Beecher

"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."
"Prayer is not conquering God's reluctance, but taking hold of God's willingness." - Phillips Brooks

"Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks commensurate with your strength. Pray for strength commensurate with your tasks."
"Prayer crowns God with the honor and glory due to His name, and God crowns prayer with assurance and comfort. The most praying souls are the most assured souls." - Thomas B. Brooks

"In prayer, it is better to have heart without words, than words without heart. Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin entice a man to cease from prayer. The spirit of prayer is more precious than treasures of gold and silver. Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan." - John Bunyan

"The best prayers often have more groans than words." - John Bunyan (1628-1688)

"You can do more than pray after you've prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed."
"Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer."
"Throughout our history, Americans of faith have always turned to prayer -- for wisdom, prayer for resolve, prayers for compassion and strength, prayers for commitment to justice and for a spirit of forgiveness.
Since America's founding, prayer has reassured us that the hand of God is guiding the affairs of this nation. We have never asserted a special claim on His favor, yet we've always believed in God's presence in our lives. This has always been true. But it has never been more true since September the 11th. Prayer has comforted people in grief. Prayer has served as a unifying factor in our nation. Prayer gives us strength for the journey ahead.
I work the ropelines a lot, and people say, 'Mr. President, I pray for you and your family.' I turn to them, I look them in the eye, and say, that's the greatest gift you can give. That's the greatest gift you can give. I mean it with all sincerity.
And so I want to thank you for your prayers. I want to thank you for what you do for our nation. I want to thank you for your good works. I want to thank you for helping change America one heart, one soul, one conscience at a time." - President George W. Bush [Excerpts from the President's remarks at the National Hispanic Prayer Breakfast, May 16, 2002]

"Prayer is not a substitute for work, thinking, watching, suffering, or giving; prayer is a support for all other efforts." - George Buttrick

"To know God as the sovereign disposer of all good, inviting us to present our requests, and yet not to approach or ask of him, were so far from availing us, that it were just as if one told of a treasure were to allow it to remain buried in the ground." - John Calvin [Institutes of the Christian Religion - "Of Prayer"]

"God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction." - Richard Cecil

"Prayer is not an exercise. It is the life of the saint." - Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)]

"Prayer does not equip us for the greater work, Prayer is the greater work."
"Prayer requires more of the heart than the tongue." - Adam Clarke (1762-1832)]

"The devil is not terribly frightened of our human efforts and credentials. But he knows his kingdom will be damaged when we begin to lift up our hearts to God." - Jim Cymbala [Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire]

"I have often said it would be a thing very desirable, and very likely to be followed with a great blessing, if there could be some contrivance, that there should be an agreement of all God's people in America... to keep a Day of Fasting and Prayer to God; wherein, we should all unite on the same day... It seems to me, it would mightily encourage and animate God's saints, in humbly and earnestly seeking God, for such blessings which concerns them all; and that it would be much for the rejoicing of all, to think, that at the same time such multitudes of God's dear children, far and near, were sending up their cries to the same common Father for the same motives." - Jonathan Edwards [1742]

"I would exhort those who have entertained an hope of their being true converts, and yet since their supposed conversion have left off the duty of secret prayer, and do ordinarily allow themselves in the omission of it, to throw away their hope. If you have left off calling upon God, it is time for you to leave off hoping and flattering yourselves with an imagination that you are the children of God. Probably it will be a very difficult thing for you to do this. It is hard for a man to let go an hope of heaven, on which he hath once allowed himself to lay hold, and which he hath retained for a considerable time. True conversion is a rare thing; but that men are brought off from a false hope of conversion, after they are once settled and established in it, and have continued in it for some time, is much more rare."- Jonathan Edwards [Hypocrites Deficient in the Duty of Prayer - 1742]

"If you live in the neglect of secret prayer, you show your good will to neglect all the worship of God. He that prays only when he prays with others, would not pray at all, were it not that the eyes of others are upon him. He that will not pray where none but God seeth him, manifestly doth not pray at all out of respect to God, or regard to his all-seeing eye, and therefore doth in effect cast off all prayer. And he that casts off prayer, in effect casts off all the worship of God, of which prayer is the principal duty." - Jonathan Edwards [Hypocrites Deficient in the Duty of Prayer - 1742]

"He who fails to pray does not cheat God. He cheats himself." - George Failing

"I saw something today which affected me more than anything I ever saw or read on religion. While the battle was raging and the bullets were flying, Jackson rode by, calm as if he were at home, but his head was raised toward heaven, and his lips were moving evidently in prayer" - William Federer - (Re: General Stonewall Jackson, recounted to Chaplain William W. Bennett) [America's God and Country, William J. Federer, p.27.]

"Many persons, being told that God answers prayer for Christ's sake, overlook the condition of obedience. They have so loose an idea of prayer, and of our relations to God in it, and of his relations to us and to his moral government, that they think they may be disobedient and yet prevail through Christ. How little do they understand the whole subject! Surely they must have quite neglected to study their Bible to learn the truth about prayer. They might very easily have found it there declared, "He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be an abomination." "The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord." "If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me." All this surely teaches us that if there be the least sin in my heart, the Lord will not hear my prayer. Nothing short of entire obedience for the time being is the condition of acceptance with God. There must be a sincere and honest heart -- else how can you look up with humble confidence and say, My Father; else how can you use the name of Jesus, as your prevailing Mediator; and else, how can God smile upon you before all the eyes of angels and of pure saints above!" - Charles G. Finney [An Approving Heart-Confidence In Prayer from "The Way Of Salvation" Chapter XXII - 1792-1875]

"Persons never need hesitate, because of their past sins, to approach God with the fullest confidence. If they now repent, and are conscious of fully and honestly returning to God with all their heart, they have no reason to fear being repulsed from the footstool of mercy." - Charles G. Finney [An Approving Heart-Confidence In Prayer from "The Way Of Salvation" Chapter XXII - 1792-1875]

"It is only those that live and walk with God whose prayers are of any avail to themselves, to the church, or to the world. Only those whose conscience does not condemn them, and who live in a state of conscious acceptance with God. They can pray. According to our text, they receive whatever they ask, because they keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight." - Charles G. Finney [An Approving Heart-Confidence In Prayer from "The Way Of Salvation" Chapter XXII - 1792-1875]

"When I speak of moving God, I do not mean that God's mind is changed by prayer, or that His disposition or character is changed. But prayer produces such a change in us as renders it consistent for God to do as it would not be consistent for Him to do otherwise." Charles G. Finney [An excerpt from: "Revival Lectures" Lecture 4 (1792-1875)]

"Countless people pray far more than they know. Often they have such a "stained-glass" image of prayer that they fail to recognize what they are experiencing as prayer and so condemn themselves for not praying." - Richard J. Foster

"You can do more than pray, after you have prayed, but you can never do more than pray until you have prayed." - A.J. Gordon

"Many people have a very strangely childish notion, that 'praying in the name of Christ' means simply the addition of the words 'through Jesus Christ our Lord' at the end of their prayers. But depend upon it, they do not by adding these words, or any words, bring it about that their prayers should be in the name of Christ. To pray in the name of Christ means to pray in such a way as represents Christ. The representative always must speak in the spirit and meaning of those for whom he speaks. If Christ is our representative, that must be because He speaks our wishes, or what we ought to make our wishes; and if we are to pray in the name of Christ, that means that we are, however far off, expressing His wishes and intentions." - Charles Gore

"Prayer is spiritual communication between man and God, a two-way relationship in which man should not only talk to God but also listen to Him. Prayer to God is like a child's conversation with his father. It is natural for a child to ask his father for the things he needs." - Billy Graham

"Remember that you can pray any time, anywhere. Washing dishes, digging ditches, working in the office, in the shop, on the athletic field, even in prison -- you can pray and know God hears!"
"Avail yourself of the greatest privilege this side of heaven. Jesus Christ died to make this communion and communication with the Father possible."
"Furnish thyself with arguments from the promises to enforce thy pravers, and make them prevalent with God. The promises are the ground of faith, and faith, when strengthened, will make thee fervent, and such fervency ever speeds and returns with victory out of the field of prayer.... The mightier any is in the Word, the more mighty he will be in prayer." - William Gurnall

"In every storm there is a 'Peace! Be still' Christ will speak where prayer's call invites Him. (1 Timothy 2:1-3)" - Jack Hayford

"Israel prevailed with God in wrestling with Him, and therefore it is that he prevails with men also. If so be that we will wrestle with God for a blessing, and prevail with Him, then we need not to fear but we shall wrestle the enemies out of it also." - Alexander Henderson

"There are ideas in our hearts, there are wishes, there are aspirations, there are groanings, there are sighings that the world knows nothing about; but God knows them. So words are not always necessary. When we cannot express our feelings except in wordless groanings, God knows exactly what is happening." - D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

"The power of prayer is like turning on a light as it illuminates God's purpose for our lives. There is no greater connection to knowing His will other than the word." - Thomas Kinkade

"Prayer is nothing else than a sense of God's presence" - Brother Lawrence

"Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance, but laying hold of His willingness." - Martin Luther

"I had rather stand against the cannons of the wicked than against the prayers of the righteous." - Thomas Lye

"According to my humble judgment, the greatest need of the present-day church is prayer. Prayer should be the vital breath of the church, but right now it is gasping for air. One of the great Bible teachers of the past said that the church goes forward on its knees. Maybe one of the reasons the church is not going forward today is because it's not in a position to go forward --- we are not on our knees in prayer.
We seek out panaceas to resolve the conflicts of the world and to heal our own personal and private wounds. Many are consulting the psychiatrist, the doctor, the minister, and anyone else who will listen. But we do not seem to recognize that the great need in our own personal lives is prayer. Prayer is the greatest neglected resource that we have; it's a power that we simply are not using today.
The disciples went to our Lord and said, 'Lord, teach us to pray' (Luke 11:1). They did not ask Him how to pray; they weren't looking for lessons on technique or an outline for ritualistic prayer. They had obviously heard our Lord pray, and they wanted to learn how to pray on the same high level as He did. This is a request many of us today need to make: 'Lord, teach us to pray.'" - J. Vernon McGee [Taken from "On Prayer" - Praying and Living in the Father's Will"]

"Fall on your knees and grow there. There is no burden of the spirit but is lighter by kneeling under it. Prayer means not always talking to Him, but waiting before Him till the dust settles and the stream runs clear." - F.B. Meyer

"The greatest tragedy of life is not unanswered prayer, but unoffered prayer."
"I believe in definite prayer. Abraham prayed for Sodom. Moses interceded for the children of Israel. How often our prayers go all around the world, without real definite asking for anything! And often, when we do ask, we don't expect anything. Many people would be surprised if God did answer their prayers." - D.L. Moody [How to Have a Good Prayer Meeting from Golden Counsels, 1899.]

"The greatest need of the church today is more of the presence and power of the Spirit of God. O that Christians were roused to greater earnestness and importunity in prayer! I believe that the greatest revival the church has ever seen would result. God help us, each one, to be faithful in doing our share." - D.L. Moody [How to Have a Good Prayer Meeting from Golden Counsels, 1899.]

"The prayer life does not consist of perpetual repetition of petitions. The prayer life consists of life that is always upward and onward and Godward" - G. Campbell Morgan

"I myself have for twenty-nine years been waiting for an answer to prayer concerning a certain spiritual blessing. Day by day have I been enabled to continue in prayer for this blessing. At home and abroad, in this country and in foreign lands, in health and in sickness, however much occupied, I have been enabled, day by day, by God's help, to bring this matter before Him; and still I have not the full answer yet. Nevertheless, I look for it. I expect it confidently. The very fact that day after day, and year after year, for twenty-nine years, the Lord has enabled me to continue, patiently, believingly, to wait on Him for the blessing, still further encourages me to wait on; and so fully am I assured that God hears me about this matter, that I have often been enabled to praise Him beforehand for the full answer, which I shall ultimately receive to my prayers on this subject. Thus, you see, dear reader, that while I have hundreds, yes, thousands of answers, year by year, I have also, like yourself and other believers, the trial of faith concerning certain matters." - George Mueller [The Wise Sayings Of George Mueller]

"How truly precious it is that every one who rests alone upon the Lord Jesus for salvation, has in the living God a father, to whom he may fully unbosom himself concerning the most minute affairs of his life, and concerning everything that lies upon his heart! Dear reader, do you know the living God? Is He, in Jesus, your Father? Be assured that Christianity is something more than forms and creeds and ceremonies: there is life, and power, and reality, in our holy faith. If you never yet have known this, then come and taste for yourself. I beseech you affectionately to meditate and pray over the following verses: John iii.16; Rom. x.9,10; acts x.43; 1 John v.1." - George Mueller
[The Wise Sayings Of George Mueller]

"Go for yourself, with all your temporal and spiritual wants, to the Lord. Bring also the necessities of your friends and relatives to the Lord. Only make the trial, and you will perceive how able and willing He is to help you. Should you, however, not at once obtain answers to your prayers, be not discouraged; but continue patiently, believingly, perseveringly to wait upon God: and as assuredly as that which you ask would be for your real good, and therefore for the honour of the Lord; and as assuredly as you ask it solely on the ground of the worthiness of our Lord Jesus, so assuredly you will at last obtain the blessing. I myself have had to wait upon God concerning certain matters for years, before I obtained answers to my prayers; but at last they came. At this very time, I have still to renew my requests daily before God, respecting a certain blessing for which I have besought Him for eleven years and a half, and which I have as yet obtained only in part, but concerning which I have no doubt that the full blessing will be granted in the end...
The great point is, that we ask only for that which it would be for the glory of God to give to us; for that, and that alone, can be for our real good. But it is not enough that the thing for which we ask God be for His honour and glory, but we must secondly ask it in the name of the Lord Jesus, viz., expect it only on the ground of His merits and worthiness.
Thirdly, we should believe that God is able and willing to give us what we ask Him for.
Fourthly, we should continue in prayer till the blessing is granted; without fixing to God a time when, or the circumstances under which, He should give the answer. Patience should be in exercise, in connection with our prayer.
Fifthly, we should, at the same time, look out for and expect an answer till it comes. If we pray in this way, we shall not only have answers, thousands of answers to our prayers; but our own souls will be greatly refreshed and invigorated in connection with these answers. " - George Mueller [The Wise Sayings Of George Mueller]

George Mueller "urged definite praying and importunate praying, and remarked that Satan will not mind how we labour in prayer for a few days, weeks, or even months, if he can at last discourage us so that we cease praying, as though it were of no use." George Mueller [From George Mueller of Bristol ---New Window, chapter 21: "The Church Life and Growth"]

"I have read many books on prayer, studied prayer and attended seminars on prayer. I have prayed tens of thousands of hours privately, and met weekly with beloved friends over years and years to pray. I have attended church prayer meetings, prayed at church railings, at community prayer meetings and while watching or listening to tragedies on the nightly news. I have prayed with thousands of people in large groups and hundreds of individual friends and strangers in intimate settings and casual conversations; face-to-face, over the telephone, in restaurants, in malls, in parking lots, in prisons, in foreign countries, on planes and through letters and e-mail. I have prayed walking, standing, sitting, rocking babies, kneeling and lying on my face. I have journaled prayer, spoken prayer, conversed in prayer, sung prayer, shouted prayer, whispered prayer, groaned prayer and wept prayer. In all of this prayer over so many years I have learned one thing. One single thing . . . and this is that the power of prayer is not in the words I pray, the place I pray, the way I pray, how loud I pray or how long I pray, but in the One to Whom I pray." - Anne Murchison

"May God open our eyes to see what the holy ministry of intercession is, to which, as His royal priesthood, we have been set apart. May He give us a large and strong heart to believe what mighty influence our prayers can exert. And may all fear as to our being able to fulfill our vocation vanish as we see Jesus, living ever to pray, living in us to pray, and standing surety for our prayer life." - Andrew Murray

"Of all the mysteries of the prayer world the need of persevering prayer is one of the greatest. That the Lord, who is so loving and longing to bless, should have to be asked, time after time, sometimes year after year, before the answer comes, we cannot easily understand. It is also one of the greatest practical difficulties in the exercise of believing prayer. When, after persevering pleading, our prayer remains unanswered, it is often easiest for our lazy flesh, and it has all the appearance of pious submission, to think that we must now cease praying, because God may have His secret reason for withholding His answer to our request.It is by faith alone that the difficulty is overcome." - Andrew Murray [The Power of Persevering Prayer - 1828-1917]

"We have become so accustomed to limit the wonderful love and the large promises of our God, that we cannot read the simplest and clearest statements of our Lord without the qualifying clauses by which we guard and expound them. If there is one thing I think the Church needs to learn, it is that God means prayer to have an answer, and that it hath not entered into the heart of man to conceive what God will do for His child who gives himself to believe that his prayer will be heard. God hears prayer; this is a truth universally admitted, but of which very few understand the meaning, or experience the power." - Andrew Murray [With Christ In the School of Prayer - 1828-1917]

"Time spent in prayer will yield more that that given to work. Prayer alone gives work its worth and its success. Prayer opens the way for God Himself to do His work in us and through us. Let our chief work as god's messengers be intercession; in it we secure the presence and power of God to go with us."
"We may be sure that, as we delight in what God delights in, such prayer is inspired by God and will have its answer, And our prayer becomes unceasingly, "Thy desires, O my Father are mine, Thy holy will of love is my will too."
"If we would talk less and pray more about them, things would be be better than they are in the world; at least, we should be better enabled to bear them." - John Owen
"We are all weak, finite, simple human beings, standing in the need of prayer. None need it so much as those who think they are strong, those who know it not, but are deluded by self-sufficiency." - Harold C. Phillips

"Prayer is not appointed for the furnishing of God with the knowledge of what we need, but it is designed as a confession to Him of our sense of the need. In this, as in everything, God's thoughts are not as ours. God requires that His gifts should be sought for. He designs to be honoured by our asking, just as He is to be thanked by us after He has bestowed His blessing." - Arthur W. Pink

"...prayer is not intended to change God's purpose, nor is it to move Him to form fresh purposes. God has decreed that certain events shall come to pass through the means He has appointed for their accomplishment."
"[Prayer] is the way and means God has appointed for the communication of the blessings of His goodness to His people."
"The prevailing idea seems to be, that I come to God and ask Him for something that I want, and that I expect Him to give me that which I have asked. But this is a most dishonouring and degading conception. The popular belief reduces God to a servant, our servant: doing our bidding, performing our pleasure, granting our desires. No, prayer is a coming to God, telling Him my need, committing my way unto the Lord, and leaving Him to deal with it as seemeth Him best."
"Real prayer is communion with God, so that there will be common thoughts between His mind and ours. What is needed is for Him to fill our hearts with His thoughts, and then His desires will become our desires flowing back to Him."
"Prayer is not so much an act as it is an attitude-an attitude of dependency, dependency upon God."
"To stand before men on behalf of God is one thing. To stand before God on behalf of men is something entirely different." - Leonard Ravenhill

"I have benefited by my praying for others; for by making an errand to God for them, I have gotten something for myself." - Samuel Rutherford

"Prayer is the most important activity a born-again Christian can perform. It should head your list of priorities, for certainly the world around us desperately needs prayer. Prayer will open the door for God to do a glorious work in these last days. Prayer will stem the tide of evil." - Chuck Smith
["Effective Prayer Life", pg 1]

"Pray as if everything depended on God, and work as if everything depended upon man." - Francis J. Spellman

"Intercessory prayer is exceedingly prevalent. What wonders it has wrought! The Word of God teems with its marvellous deeds. Believer, thou hast a mighty engine in thy hand, use it well, use it constantly, use it with faith, and thou shalt surely be a benefactor to thy brethren." - Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)

"He who lives without prayer, he who lives with little prayer, he who seldom reads the Word, and he who seldom looks up to heaven for a fresh influence from on high -- he will be the man whose heart will become dry and barren."
"So the preacher of the gospel asks your prayers: and it is a part of the duties arising out of the relationship between Christian men that those who are taught should pray for those who teach God's Word."
"Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night." - Charles H. Spurgeon [from "The Treasury of David"]

"We cannot all argue, but we can all pray; we cannot all be leaders but we can all be pleaders; we cannot all be mighty in rhetoric, but we can all be prevalent in prayer. I would sooner see you eloquent with God than with men."
"More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of." - Lord Alfred Tennysonz

"Prayer is not a convenient device for imposing our will upon God, or bending his will to ours, but the prescribed way of subordinating our will to his." - John R.W. Stott

"More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones." - Mother Teresa

"Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God's gift of himself."
"When the perceptive child of God stops to weigh the meaning of these words, then notes the connection in which they are found, he or she is driven to say, 'I must pray, pray, pray. I must put all my energy and heart into prayer. Whatever else I do, I must pray.'" - R.A. Torrey

"Prayer will promote our personal holiness as nothing else, except the study of the Word of God."
"When the devil sees a man or woman who really believes in prayer, who knows how to pray, and who really does pray, and, above all, when he sees a whole church on its face before God in prayer, "he trembles" as much as he ever did, for he knows that his day in that church or community is at an end."
"In the 6th chapter of Ephesians in the 18th verse we read words which put the tremendous importance of prayer with startling and overwhelming force: "Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints." When we stop to weigh the meaning of these words, then note the connection in which they are found, the intelligent child of God is driven to say, "I must pray, pray, pray. I must put all my energy and all my heart into prayer. Whatever else I do, I must pray." - R.A. Torrey [How To Pray (1856-1928)]

"When we become too glib in prayer we are most surely talking to ourselves." - A.W. Tozer

"Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance; it is laying hold of His highest willingness!" - Richard C. Trench [An English Clergy [1807-1886]]

"Do not make prayer a monologue -- make it a conversation." - Unknown

"Humility is the way for us to open communication with the merciful God of heaven. It is far better to pray in a private "room," be unseen by man, and have the approval of God than to give a public display of prayer and have a heart full of pride."
"The secret of failure is that we see men rather than God. Romanism trembled when Martin Luther saw God. The 'great awakening' sprang into being when Jonathan Edwards saw God. The world became the parish of one man when John Wesley saw God. Multitudes were saved when Whitfield saw God. Thousands of orphans were fed when George Muller saw God. And He is 'the same yesterday, today, and forever.' "
"Let us never forget that the greatest thing we can do for God or for man is to pray. For we can accomplish far more by our prayers than by our work. Prayer is omnipotent; it can do anything that God can do! When we pray God works. All fruitfulness in service is the outcome of prayer -- of the worker's prayers, or of those who are holding up holy hands on his behalf. We all know how to pray, but perhaps many of us need to cry as the disciples did of old, 'Lord, teach us to pray.' "
"Some of us at once recall to mind George Muller's wonderful prayer-life. On one occasion, when crossing from Quebec to Liverpool, he had prayed very definitely that a chair he had written to New York for should arrive in time to catch the steamer, and he was quite confident that God had granted his petition. About half an hour before the tender was timed to take the passengers to the ship, the agents informed him that no chair had arrived, and that it could not possibly come in time for the steamer. Now, Mrs. Muller suffered much from sea-sickness, and it was absolutely essential that she should have the chair. Yet nothing would induce Mr. Muller to buy another one from a shop near by. "We have made special prayer that our Heavenly Father would be pleased to provide it for us, and we will trust Him to do so," was his reply; and he went on board absolutely sure that his trust was not misplaced, and would not miscarry. Just before the tender left, a van drove up, and on the top of the load it carried was Mr. Muller's chair. It was hurried on board and placed into the hands of the very man who had urged George Muller to buy another one! When he handed it to Mr. Muller, the latter expressed no surprise, but quietly removed his hat and thanked his Heavenly Father. To this man of God such an answer to prayer was not wonderful, but natural. And do you not think that God allowed the chair to be held back till the very last minute as a lesson to Mr. Muller's friends-and to us? We should never have heard of that incident but for that delay.
". . . prayer is a posture. By that, I mean that it's a way of approaching God - and it's a way of approaching your life. A "prayer full" posture does not mean one literally spends days, weeks, months and years on your knees locked in conscious conversation with God. Rather, life is spent growing ever more aware of the source of deepest gladness and trust - in constant communication through that awareness. Be a person of prayer - in a posture of awareness of and gratitude to God." [from Gospel.com]

"Seven days without prayer makes one weak." - Allen E Vartlett

"To pray 'in Jesus' name' means to pray in his spirit, in his compassion, in his love, in his outrage, in his concern. In other words, it means to pray a prayer that Jesus himself might pray." - Kenneth L. Wilson

"Every new victory which a soul gains is the effect of a new prayer... In the greatest temptations, a single look to Christ, and the barely pronouncing his name, suffices to overcome the wicked one, so it be done with confidence and calmness of spirit. God's command to 'pray without ceasing' is founded on the necessity we have of his grace to preserve the life of God in the soul, which can no more subsist one moment without it, than the body can without air. Whether we think of; or speak to, God, whether we act or suffer for him, all is prayer, when we have no other object than his love, and the desire of pleasing him. All that a Christian does, even in eating and sleeping, is prayer, when it is done in simplicity, according to the order of God, without either adding to or diminishing from it by his own choice. Prayer continues in the desire of the heart, though the understanding be employed on outward things. In souls filled with love, the desire to please God is a continual prayer." - John Wesley [from "A Plain Account of Christian Perfection (1703-1791)]

"God only requires of his adult children, that their hearts be truly purified, and that they offer him continually the wishes and vows that naturally spring from perfect love. For these desires, being the genuine fruits of love, are the most perfect prayers that can spring from it." - John Wesley [from "A Plain Account of Christian Perfection (1703-1791)]

"God may pass by our elaborate programs and outstanding talents, but He will never pass by the prostrate form of an intercessor." - A. A. Wilson

"The story is told of a little guy valiantly but futilely trying to move a heavy log to clear a pathway to his favorite hideout. His dad stood nearby and finally asked him why he wasn't using all his strength. The little guy assured his dad he was straining with all his might. His dad quietly told him he was not using all his strength, because he hadn't asked him (his dad) to help." - Zig Zigler

I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent. - Henry Ward Beecher

God punishes us mildly by ignoring our prayers and severely by answering them. - Richard J. Needham

When we pray to God we must be seeking nothing - nothing. - Saint Francis of Assisi
"Give us this day our daily bread" is probably the most perfectly constructed and useful sentence ever set down in the English language. - P.J. Wingate

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays. - Søren Kierkegaard

No one is a firmer believer in the power of prayer than the devil; not that he practices it, but he suffers from it. - Guy H. King

Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble. - Philip Melanchthen

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. - Satchel Paige (1974)

The value of consistent prayer is not that He will hear us, but that we will hear Him. - William McGill

Prayer may not change things for you, but it for sure changes you for things. - Samuel M. Shoemaker

Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer. - Author Unknown

Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day; give him a religion, and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish. - Author Unknown

I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs. - Frederick Douglass [escaped slave]

Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers. - Austin O'Malley

As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in schools. - Author Unknown

When we talk to God, we're praying. When God talks to us, we're schizophrenic. - Jane Wagner [In Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, 1985, performed by Lily Tomlin]

We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties. - Oswald Chambers

When at night you cannot sleep, talk to the Shepherd and stop counting sheep. - Author Unknown

When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality. - Oswald Chambers

Many people pray as if God were a big aspirin pill; they come only when they hurt. - B. Graham Dienert

Prayer is when you talk to God; meditation is when you listen to God. - Author Unknown

Prayer is not merely an occasional impulse to which we respond when we are in trouble: prayer is a life attitude. - Walter A. Mueller

The Lord's Prayer may be committed to memory quickly, but it is slowly learnt by heart. -Frederick Denison Maurice

Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie - I found that out. - Mark Twain

Prayers not felt by us are seldom heard by God. - Philip Henry

The trouble with our praying is, we just do it as a means of last resort. - Will Rogers

When you pray, rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart. - John Bunyan

And help us, this and every day, to live more nearly as we pray. - John Keble

I believe in prayer. It's the best way we have to draw strength from heaven. - Josephine Baker

Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence. - Oscar Wilde

Prayer is the soul's sincere desire,
Uttered or unexpressed;
The motion of a hidden fire
That trembles in the breast.
- James Montgomery [What is Prayer?]

It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk. - Henry Ward Beecher

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees. - Victor Hugo [Les Misérables, 1862]

It is good for us to keep some account of our prayers, that we may not unsay them in our practice. - Matthew Henry

Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives and the sincerest part of our devotion. - Jonathan Swift

I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. - Abraham Lincoln

God can pick sense out of a confused prayer. - Richard Sibbes

Pray, v. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy. - Ambrose Bierce [The Devil's Dictionary, 1911]

I often pray, though I'm not really sure Anyone's listening; and I phrase it carefully, just in case He's literary. - Mignon McLaughlin [The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966]

Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself. - William Inge

If we could all hear one another's prayers, God might be relieved of some of his burdens. - Ashleigh Brilliant

Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue. - Adam Clarke

God always answers our prayers, but sometimes the answer is no. - Author Unknown

God speaks in the silence of the heart. Listening is the beginning of prayer. - Mother Teresa

There come times when I have nothing more to tell God. If I were to continue to pray in words, I would have to repeat what I have already said. At such times it is wonderful to say to God, "May I be in Thy presence, Lord? I have nothing more to say to Thee, but I do love to be in Thy presence." - O. Hallesby

What men usually ask of God when they pray is that two and two not make four. - Author Unknown

Most people do not pray; they only beg. - George Bernard Shaw

Prayer draws us near to our own souls. - Herman Melville [Mardi and A Voyage Thither, 1849]

To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do. - Victor Hugo

What we usually pray to God is not that His will be done, but that He approve ours. - Helga Bergold Gross

We must move from asking God to take care of the things that are breaking our hearts, to praying about the things that are breaking His heart. - Margaret Gibb

We cannot ask in behalf of Christ what Christ would not ask Himself if He were praying. - A.B. Simpson

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us. - Socrates

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart. - Ruth Graham

God tells us to burden him with whatever burdens us. - Author Unknown

You know I ain't never prayed before
'Cause it always seemed to me
That prayin's the same as beggin' Lord,
I don't take no charity.
- Steve Earle ["Tom Ames' Prayer," 1994]

Before we can pray, "Lord, Thy Kingdom come," we must be willing to pray, "My Kingdom go." - Alan Redpath

Some people think that prayer just means asking for things, and if they fail to receive exactly what they asked for, they think the whole thing is a fraud. - Gerald Vann

Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered. - George Meredith

God has editing rights over our prayers. He will... edit them, correct them, bring them in line with His will and then hand them back to us to be resubmitted. - Stephen Crotts

Be thankful that God's answers are wiser than your answers. - William Culbertson

Prayer is the language of a man burdened with a sense of need. - E.M. Bounds

Prayer is exhaling the spirit of man and inhaling the spirit of God. - Edwin Keith

Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth. - Philip James Bailey

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden. - Corrie ten Boom

Call on God, but row away from the rocks. - Indian Proverb

Intensity is a law of prayer. God is found by those who seek Him with all their heart. Wrestling prayer prevails. The fervent effectual prayer of the righteous is of great force. - Samuel Chadwick

Can Jesus Christ see the agony of His soul in us? He can't unless we are so closely identified with Him that we have His view concerning the people for whom we pray. May we learn to intercede so wholeheartedly that Jesus Christ will be completely and overwhelmingly satisfied with us as intercessors. - Oswald Chambers

“Prayer will become effective when we stop using it as a substitute for obedience.”
- A.W. Tozer

"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

"The man who mobilizes the Christian church to pray will make the greatest contribution to world evangelization in history." - Andrew Murray

"I would rather teach one man to pray than ten men to preach." - Charles Spurgeon

“What the church needs today is not machinery or better, not new organizations or more and novel methods, but men whom the Holy Spirit can use - men mighty in prayer. The Holy Spirit does not flow through methods, but through men of prayer.” And we might add, through women of prayer.” - E.M. Bounds

“Out of a very intimate acquaintance with D.L. Moody, I wish to testify that he was a far greater pray-er than he was preacher.” - R.A. Torrey

“It is obvious that Paul did not regard prayer as supplemental, but as fundamental—not something to be added to his work but the very matrix out of which his work was born. He was a man of action because he was a man of prayer. It was probably his prayer even more than his preaching that produced the kind of leaders we meet in his letters.” - Oswald Sanders [from Dynamic Spiritual Leadership]

“A sinning man will stop praying. A praying man will stop sinning.” - Leonard Ravenhill

“Prayer as a relationship is probably your best indicator about the health of your love relationship with God. If your prayer life has been slack, your love relationship has grown cold.” - John Piper

“Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?” - Corrie Ten Boom
"The less I pray, the harder it gets; the more I pray, the better it goes.” - Martin Luther

“Real prayer comes not from gritting our teeth, but from falling in love.” - Richard Foster

“Do not attempt to assess the quality of your prayer. God alone can judge its value.” - Macarious of Optino

"Prayer is not conquering God’s reluctance, but taking hold of God’s willingness." - Phillips Brooks

"I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go." - Abraham Lincoln

"Heaven is full of answers to prayer for which no one ever bothered to ask." - Billy Graham

"Unless I had the spirit of prayer, I could do nothing." - Charles G. Finney

"Prayer is not a fruitless exercise that God asked us to perform to determine whether or not we're faithful. Prayer is the vehicle that releases God to move in the earth!" - Joseph Cameneti Sr.

"Prayer is simple, as simple as a child making known its wants to it parents." - Oswald Chambers

"God does nothing but in answer to prayer." - John Wesley

"Prayer is striking the winning blow. . . . Service is gathering up the results." - S.D. Gordon

"God shapes the world by prayer. The prayers of God’s saints are the capital stock of heaven by which God carries on His great work upon earth." - E.M. Bounds

"Beloved, it is not our long prayers but our believing God that gets the answer." - John G. Lake

"I used to ask God to help me. Then I asked if I might help Him. I ended up by asking Him to do his work through me." - James Hudson Taylor

"Out of a very intimate acquaintance with D.L. Moody, I wish to testify that he was a far greater pray-er than he was a preacher." - R.A. Torrey

"God does nothing but by prayer, and everything with it." - John Wesley

“To pray is to cast off your burdens, it is to tear away your rags, it is to shake off your diseases, it is to be filled with spiritual vigor, it is to reach the highest point of Christian health.” - C.H. Spurgeon

"I can no longer condemn or hate a brother for whom I pray, no matter how much trouble he causes me. His face, that hitherto may have been strange and intolerable to me, is transformed into the countenance of a brother for whom Christ died, the face of a forgiven sinner." - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Pray and let God worry. - Martin Luther

"The disappearance of the 'prayer meeting' from the life of many churches is something which occasions widespread regret, even among many who would not normally attend. Indeed, the prayer meeting in which the laity participated freely is a legacy from the 1859 (Ulster) Revival...These prayer meetings were not in many cases in existence before the revival set in. The very establishment of them in the first instance, was an evidence that it was spring-time again in the Church of Christ, and the restoration of them today would be for her reviving once more." - John T. Carson

"God has no greater controversy with His people today than this, that with boundless promises to believing prayer, there are so few who actually give themselves unto intercession." - A. T. Pierson

"You must pray with all your might. That does not mean saying your prayers, or sitting gazing about in church or chapel with eyes wide open while someone else says them for you. It means fervent, effectual, untiring wrestling with God...This kind of prayer be sure the devil and the world and your own indolent, unbelieving nature will oppose. They will pour water on this flame." - William Booth

"Prayer is self-discipline. The effort to realize the presence and power of God stretches the sinews of the soul and hardens its muscles. To pray is to grow in grace. To tarry in the presence of the King leads to new loyalty and devotion on the part of the faithful subjects. Christian character grows in the secret-place of prayer. - Samuel M. Zwemer

"At Waterloo, the English troops obeying orders fell on their faces for a time and let the hot fire of the French artillery pass over them. Then they sprang to their feet and rushed to the thickest of the fight and beat back their foes. The Lord wants His people flat on their faces, before they attempt to meet the great crises of life." - A. T. Pierson

"True prayer will achieve just as much as it costs us." - Samuel M. Zwemer

"How often has very earnest prayer for the fullness of the Holy Ghost been in vain, because he who sought that unspeakable blessing sought it rather for the glory which the possession of it, or the reputation for the possession of it, might bring to man, than for the honor and praise that might be brought to God." - G. H. C. Macgregor

"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." - Charles Spurgeon"

The great battles, the battles that decide our destiny and the destiny of generations yet unborn, are not fought on public platforms, but in the lonely hours of the night and in moments of agony." - Samuel Logan Brengle

"The essence of prayer does not consist in asking God for something but in opening our hearts to God, in speaking with Him, and living with Him in perpetual communion. Prayer is continual abandonment to God. Prayer does not mean asking God for all kinds of things we want; it is rather the desire for God Himself, the only Giver of Life, Prayer is not asking, but union with God. Prayer is not a painful effort to gain from God help in the varying needs of our lives. Prayer is the desire to possess God Himself, the Source of all life. The true spirit of prayer does not consist in asking for blessings, but in receiving Him who is the giver of all blessings, and in living a life of fellowship with Him." - Sadhu Sundar Singh

The Word of God represents all the possibilities of God as at the disposal of true prayer." -A. T. Pierson

"What a man is on his knees before God in secret, that will he be before men: that much and no more." -Fred Mitchell

"Whether we like it or not, asking is the rule of the Kingdom. If you may have everything by asking in His Name, and nothing without asking, I beg you to see how absolutely vital prayer is." -C. H. Spurgeon

"Prayer - secret, fervent, believing prayer - lies at the root of all personal godliness." -William Carey

"Job's friends chose the right time to visit him, but took not the right course of improving their visit; had they spent the time in praying for him which they did in hot disputes with him, they would have profited him, and pleased God more." -William Gurnall

"The energies of the universe, nay, of God Himself, are at the disposal of those who pray - to the man who stirreth up himself to take hold of God." – Samuel Zwemer

"There is absolutely no substitute for this secret communion with God. The public Church services, or even the family altar, cannot take the place of the 'closet' prayer. We must deliberately seek to meet with God absolutely alone, and to secure such aloneness with God we are bidden to 'enter into thy closet.' God absolutely insists on this 'closet'-communion with Himself. One reason, no doubt, that He demands it, is to test our sincerity. There is no test for the soul like solitude. Do you shrink from solitude? Perhaps the cause for your neglect of the 'closet' is a guilty conscience? You are afraid to enter into the solitude. You know that however cheerful you appear to be you are not really happy. You surround yourself with company lest, being alone, truth should invade your delusion…" – Gordon Cove

"Prayer meetings are dead affairs when they are merely asking sessions; there is adventure, hope and life when they are believing sessions, and the faith is corporately, practically and deliberately affirmed." – Norman Grubb

"I should like to allude to a few points in the character of Mr. Hudson Taylor which impressed me personally, and which I think had something to do with the blessing that God granted to his efforts on behalf of this country (China). First his prayerfulness; he was of necessity a busy man, but he always regarded prayer itself as in reality the most needful and important part of the work. He practically recognized that much time must be spent in seeking God's guidance, if a right understanding was to be obtained of the problems and difficulties that confronted him, in carrying on the work of the Mission. He knew that in no other way was the power of the Holy Spirit to be obtained for himself and his brethren, as they sought to develop the work. I venture on this occasion, not only to impress upon myself, but upon you as well, the importance of our copying him in this respect." - D. E. Hoste

"Out of a very intimate acquaintance with D. L. Moody, I wish to testify that he was a far greater pray-er than he was preacher. Time and time again, he was confronted by obstacles that seemed insurmountable, but he always knew the way to overcome all difficulties. He knew the way to bring to pass anything that needed to be brought to pass. He knew and believed in the deepest depths of his soul that nothing was too hard for the Lord, and that prayer could do anything that God could do. " – R. A. Torrey.

"All great soul-winners have been men of much and mighty prayer, and all great revivals have been preceded and carried out by persevering, prevailing knee-work in the closet." – Samuel Logan Brengle

"God has created both the mother's milk and the child's desire to drink it. But the milk does not flow of itself into the child's mouth. No, the child must lie in its mother bosom and suck the milk diligently. God has created the spiritual food which we need. He has filled the soul of man with desire for this food, with an impulse to cry out for it and to drink it in. The spiritual milk, the nourishment of our souls, we receive through prayer. By means of fervent prayer we must receive it into our souls. As we do this we become stronger day by day, just like the infant at the breast." - Sadhu Sundar Singh

"We have found no means so much blessed to keep religion alive as FASTING and PRAYER." - Edward Payson

"It is not enough for the believer to begin to pray, nor to pray correctly; nor is it enough to continue for a time to pray. We must patiently, believingly continue in prayer until we obtain an answer. Further, we have not only to continue in prayer until the end, but we have also to believe that God does hear us and will answer our prayers. Most frequently we fail in not continuing in prayer until the blessing is obtained, and in not expecting the blessing. Those who are disciples of the Lord Jesus should labor with all their might in the work of God as if everything depended upon their own endeavors. Yet, having done so, they should not in the least trust in their labor and efforts, nor in the means that they use for the spread of the truth, but in God alone; and they should with all earnestness seek the blessing of God in persevering, patient, and believing prayer. Here is the great secret of success, my Christian reader. Work with all your might, but never trust in your work. Pray with all your might for the blessing in God, but work at the same time with all diligence, with all patience, with all perseverance. Pray, then, and work. Work and pray. And still again pray, and then work. And so on, all the days of your life. The result will surely be abundant blessing. Whether you see much fruit or little fruit, such kind of service will be blessed." – George Muller

"The neglect of prayer is a grand hindrance to holiness." - John Wesley

REPENTENCE [top]
"Repentance unto life is a saving grace, whereby a sinner, out of a true sense of his sin, and apprehension of the mercy of God in Christ, doth, with grief and hatred of his sin, turn from it unto God, with full purpose of, and endeavor after new obedience.” -The Westminster Shorter Catechism

“Some people do not like to hear much of repentance; but I think it is so necessary that if I should die in the pulpit, I would desire to die preaching repentance, and if out of the pulpit I would desire to die practicing it.” -Matthew Henry

REVIVAL [top]
"Trying to run a church without revivals can be done when you can run a gasoline engine on buttermilk." - Billy Sunday

"If revival is being withheld from us it is because some idol remains still enthroned; because we still insist in placing our reliance in human schemes; because we still refuse to face the unchangeable truth that 'It is not by might, but by My Spirit." - Jonathan Goforth

"One of our troubles is we are not willing to humble ourselves. We are not willing to give up our opinions as to how things should be done. We want a revival to come just in our way. You never saw two revivals come just alike. We must let them come in God's way. People are ashamed to admit they need a revival. If you are not willing to take the shame on yourself, you then let it remain on Jesus Christ. You must bear the reproach of your sinful state of indifference, or the cause of our Master must bear it." - Mordecai Ham

"The Azusa revival began where every revival should rightly begin-in repentant tears. It began in tears, it lived in tears, and when the tears ended the Azusa revival ended." - A. G. Osterberg

"At God's counter there are no " SALE DAYS," for the price of revival is ever the same -TRAVAIL. - Leonard Ravenhill

" The depth of a revival will be determined exactly by the depth of the spirit of repentance." - Frank Bartleman

"Revival comes from heaven when heroic souls enter the conflict determined to win or die-or if need be, to win and die! "The kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force." - Charles G. Finney

“Let Christians remember, that in a season of revival as well as in a season of coldness, the evidence of piety is to be sought in the fruits of the Spirit. And let sinners remember that no degree of attendance on means, no degree of fervor, can be substituted for repentance of sin and faith in the Savior..." -William B. Sprague

“Does it grieve you my friends, that the name of God is being taken in vain and desecrated? Does it grieve you that we are living in a godless age...But, we are living in such an age and the main reason we should be praying about revival is that we are anxious to see God's name vindicated and His glory manifested. We should be anxious to see something happening that will arrest the nations, all the peoples, and cause them to stop and to think again.” -Martyn Lloyd-Jones

“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.” -C. H. Spurgeon

“Revivals begin with God's own people; the Holy Spirit touches their heart anew, and gives them new fervor and compassion, and zeal, new light and life, and when He has thus come to you, He next goes forth to the valley of dry bones…Oh, what responsibility this lays on the Church of God! If you grieve Him away from yourselves, or hinder His visit, then the poor perishing world suffers sorely!” –Andrew A. Bonar

“In the Irish Revival of 1859, people became so weak that they could not get back to their homes. Men and women would fall by the wayside and would be found hours later pleading with God to save their souls. They felt that they were slipping into hell and that nothing else in life mattered but to get right with God... To them eternity meant everything. Nothing else was of any consequence. They felt that if God did not have mercy on them and save them, they were doomed for all time to come." - Oswald J. Smith

“With some men it would seem, if they could control God's operations and manipulate His actions they might tolerate a revival; but to allow God a free hand, fills them with righteous indignation and horror. If only God would consent to become an 'ecclesiastic' and respect their dignity and decorum and beautiful order of service and ways of running the Church, they might condescend to have a revival.” – William P. Nicholson

"There are different kinds of fire; there is false fire. No one knows this better than we do, but we are not such fools as to refuse good bank notes because there are false ones in circulation; and although we see here and there manifestations of what appears to us to be nothing more than mere earthly fire, we none the less prize and value, and seek for the genuine fire which comes from the altar of the Lord."
- William Booth

"It is the Holy Ghost in us that is everything, and the Father is willing to bestow Him upon the weakest if he will only ask in the spirit of implicit faith and entire self-surrender. My cry these days is for a Pentecost, first on myself and my missionary brethren, and then on the native Church, and then on the heathen at large." – Griffith John

"God's time for revival is the very darkest hour, when everything seems hopeless. It is always the Lord's way to go to the very worst cases to manifest His glory." – Andrew Gih

"God's program for reviving His people is definite and clear. First Elijah "repaired the altar of Jehovah that was thrown down." That is the place to begin. All the ruin that sin has wrought must be cleared away by confession. Things must be made right with God; restitution must be made where it is due. Unless this is done definitely and thoroughly, prayer for reviving is vain…Too many are praying today without repairing the altar by confession of sin, without digging a trench of separation from the world and without a surrender that is even unto death. No wonder such prayer is fruitless." – Andrew Gih

"Revival is the assemblies of God manifesting the oneness of the membership in the mystical, supernatural body of Christ, delivered from denominational bigotry." – James A. Stewart

"Revival is the saints of God agonizing on behalf of lost souls going to hell." – James A. Stewart

"Revival is the people of God living in the power of an ungrieved, unquenched Spirit." – James A. Stewart

"Revival is the child of God desperately in love with his glorious Savior and Lord." – James A. Stewart

"Revival is living the Christ life in the home." – James A. Stewart

"Revival is the heathen saying, "The Lord hath done great things for them" (Psa. 126:2). – James A. Stewart

"Revival is Zion travailing in spiritual childbirth." – James A. Stewart

"Revival is the Church of God as a conquering army putting to rout the hosts of hell." – James A. Stewart

"Revival is torrents of living water flowing out of the individual believer." – James A. Stewart

"Revival is the beauty of holiness adorning the saints." – James A. Stewart

"Revival is the recognition of the ministry of insignificant members of the body, and deliverance from idol worship of the more prominent members who are in the limelight." – James A. Stewart

"Revival is restoring the years the locusts have eaten." – James A. Stewart

"Revival is the people of God constrained, gripped, overmastered, and overwhelmed by the love of Christ, so that they are feverishly restless to win souls for Christ." – James A. Stewart

"Revival is the whole assembly powerfully and passionately winning lost souls to Christ." – James A. Stewart

"Revival and change are almost synonymous terms and both clearly cut across traditionalism. There is no way true revival can occur without major changes disrupting and reordering the life of the Church... God is no traditionalist. While God is orderly, He is always fresh and vital. If a church can run according to forms and traditions of men, it will run without the presence and power of God ... Is it any wonder the love of tradition is an enemy to revival? Revival and new life go hand in hand ... Let every church realize that the inordinate love of tradition is a great opponent to revival ... When a church slays the love of tradition, a major obstacle to revival will be slain With it." – Richard Owen Roberts

"There is no question that God works, often powerfully, in the old structures. But it is inevitable that those very structures put serious limitations on His working. It is all too easy for the ground gained to be lost, for the situation to revert, and for the whole process to need repeating within a short space of time. Take the 1950, Lewis Awakening. Though confined to certain Presbyterian churches in the Outer Hebrides, this was a powerful movement of the Spirit that deeply affected those communities at the time. Many found faith in Christ, and some of these are now in full-time service. But the fact remains that in less than a decade you could visit those very churches where God had worked so powerfully and never suspect that they had ever tasted revival. Without a change of structure it is virtually Impossible to conserve the fruits of revival." - Arthur Wallis

"If our GOAL is Revival, we will be quite unbalanced when it comes. If our goal is God, we will be able to walk with Him calmly and steadfastly through years of waiting and through the joys and victories of a season of refreshing. Christ crucified and risen is not only the Door, and the Way, but the End also. It is our personal relationship to Him which counts more than anything else. Oh, the need for men and women who know their God! The Church of Christ will only arise militant, triumphant, an 'exceeding great army', when individuals get rightly related to God." - Nancy B. Morris

"Perhaps the greatest barrier to revival on a large scale is the fact that we are to interested in a great display. We want an exhibition; God is looking for a man who will throw himself entirely on God. Whenever self-effort, self-glory, self-seeking or self-promotion enters into the work of revival, then God leaves us to ourselves." - Ted S. Rendall

"The disappearance of the 'prayer meeting' from the life of many churches is something which occasions widespread regret, even among many who would not normally attend. Indeed, the prayer meeting in which the laity participated freely is a legacy from the 1859 (Ulster) Revival...These prayer meetings were not in many cases in existence before the revival set in. The very establishment of them in the first instance, was an evidence that it was spring-time again in the Church of Christ, and the restoration of them today would be for her reviving once more." - John T. Carson

"Revival will call for much love and humility, because it may please God to use one man more extensively than another. The fleece of one denomination may appear to be wet with the dews of heaven while another is only damp with it. In some cases God may use the least gifted of men - at least some would so judge them - and in the least likely of churches find a channel for His grace. May God preserve us from a spirit which would prefer to see no revival at all if it did not come in our form, after our pattern, and through our instrumentality." - John T. Carson

"Preachers who never have revivals never weary of calling attention to everything objectionable in the methods of those who have powerful revivals...O ye fault-finders, beware lest when your Lord come, ye be found smiting your fellow servants, instead of working with them!" - B. T. Roberts

"Revival, as contrasted with a Holy Ghost atmosphere is a clean-cut breakthrough of the Spirit, a sweep of Holy Ghost power, bending the hearts of hardened sinners as the wheat before the wind, breaking up the fountains of the great deep, sweeping the whole range of the emotions, as the master hand moves across the harp strings, from the tears and cries of the penitent to the holy laughter and triumphant joy of the cleansed. They are fools who belittle such holy experiences and warn against ‘excessive emotionalism.’ Such do not even understand the make-up of ‘Mansoul,’ still less the ways of the Eternal Lover with His beloved." – Norman Grubb

"All great soul-winners have been men of much and mighty prayer, and all great revivals have been preceded and carried out by persevering, prevailing knee-work in the closet." – Samuel Logan Brengle

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“The chief danger of the Church today is that it is trying to get on the same side as the world, instead of turning the world upside down. Our Master expects us to accomplish results, even if they bring opposition and conflict. Anything is better than compromise, apathy, and paralysis. God give to us an intense cry for the old-time power of the Gospel and the Holy Ghost!” -A. B. Simpson

"I long to be filled with divine knowledge, divine wisdom, divine love, divine holiness, to the utmost extent of my capacity. I want to feel that all the currents of my soul are interfused in one channel deep and wide, and all flowing towards the heart of Christ." – Griffith John

"Do we give sufficient attention to the theme of gaining Christ? It is our joy and privilege to know Him as God's unspeakable gift, but none knew this more fully than the apostle Paul. But was he satisfied with this knowledge? Or was Paul's soul-consuming desire, at all possible cost, to gain Christ; and thus to know Him, and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings? Oh that Christ may be so known by us as a ‘living, bright reality’ that our one desire-our one absorbing heart-passion may be that we personally gain Christ-that we personally know Him as the apostle longed to do." - Hudson Taylor

"I want deliberately to encourage this mighty longing after God. The lack of it has brought us to our present low estate. The stiff and wooden quality about our religious lives is a result of our lack of holy desire. Complacency is a deadly foe of all spiritual growth. Acute desire must be present or there will be no manifestation of Christ to His people. He waits to be wanted. Too bad that with many of us He waits so long, so very long, in vain." – A. W. Tozer

" It seems to me that there are but few who really live with a passion for God-especially a passion just to be with Him. Today there is such a noise coming up before the throne of the Most High-the clamor of so-called praise, singing, and joyful shouting. But I wonder if the same people who love to sing and shout, loudly exclaiming the the praises of God, really have such an intense glory in their secret life with the Lord. When the meeting's over and there's no one there to listen except the only One who matters, do you still have that same passionate joy in your spirit, just to be alone with the Living God?" - Keith Green

"If we do not thirst here we shall thirst when it is too late; if we do not thirst as David did, ‘My soul thirsteth for God’ (Ps. 42: 2), we shall thirst as Dives did for a drop of water." -Thomas Watson

"God will fill the hungry because He Himself has stirred up the hunger. As in the case of prayer, when God prepares the heart to pray, He prepares His ear to hear (Ps. 10: 17). So in the case of spiritual hunger, when God prepares the heart to hunger, He will prepare His hand to fill." - Thomas Watson

If you don't hunger, you won't be filled. Fight for that hunger. - Unknown

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