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Abraham Lincon
"I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go; my own wisdom and that of all around me seemed insufficient for the day."
Satan trembles when he sees the weakest Christian on his knees.
If the church wants a better pastor, it only needs to pray for the one it has.
Seven days without prayer makes one weak.
R.A.Torrey
"The devil is perfectly willing that the church should multiply its organisations for the conquest of the world for Christ, if it will only give up prayer."
D.L.Moody
"Next to the wonder of seeing my Saviour will be, I think, the wonder that I made so little use of the power of prayer."
"Every great movemnet of God can be traced to a kneeling figure."
Woodrow Kroll
"Isn't it funny how children will pray for the next door neighbours cat, which you have tried to run over for the past three years. Let them pray for it is important to them."
Anon
"Prayer should be the key to the day and the lock of the night."
In Evangelism
"Prayer is the real work, Evangelism is just the mopping up."
Sidlow Baxter
"Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise our persons, but they are helpless against our prayers."
R.M.M'Cheyne
"What would my people do if I were not to pray."
"If he had been on earth, would you not have gone to Him, would you not have kneeled and said, Lord help me? Does it make any difference that he is at the right hand of God? He is the same yesterday, today and for ever."
Matthew Henry
"You may as soon find a living man that does not breath, as a living Christian that does not prayer."
M. Luther
"I have so much to do today that I will spend the first three hours in prayer."
C.H.Spurgeon
"To seek aid in time of distress from a supernatural being is an instinct of human nature."
John Bunyan
"Prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God and a scourge to Satan."
"Hudson Taylor prayed about things as if everything depended upon the praying, but then he worked as if everything depended upon the work."
E.M.Bounds
"As the engine never moves until the fire is kindled, so preaching, with all its machinery, perfection and polish, is at a dead standstill. As far as spiritual results are concerned, till prayer has kindled and created the steam. The texture, fineness and strength of the sermon is as much rubbish unless the mighty impulse of prayer is in it, through it and behind it."
Benjamin Franklin
At the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787, Benjamin Franklin said, "I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth - that God governs in the affairs of men. I therefore beg leave to move that henceforth prayers imploring the assistance of heaven and its blessings on our deliberations be held in this Assembly every morning...."
Guthrie
"Prayer moves the Hand that moves the world."
EM Bounds
"Prayer moves men because it moves God to move men."
Clean Laugh
A nearsighted minister glanced at the note that Mrs. Jones had sent to him by an usher. The note read: "Bill Jones having gone to sea, his wife desires the prayers of the congregation for his safety." Failing to observe the punctuation, he startled his audience by announcing: "Bill Jones, having gone to see his wife, desires the prayers of the congregation for his safety."
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