Quotes from men and women of God about prayer

Be encouraged and inspired by the following quotes:

1. “When you want to work for God… start a committee.  When you want to work with God… start a prayer group.”  Corrie TenBoom

2. “You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed.”  A.J. Gordon

3. “God has voluntarily made Himself dependent also upon our prayer.  For prayer is the deciding factor in the life of every one who surrenders himself to God to be used by Him.” O. Hallesby

4. “Prayer is not meant to develop us naturally, it is meant to give the life of the Son of God in us a chance to develop, that the natural order may be transfigured into the spiritual.” Oswald Chambers

5. “Prayer is a trade to be learned.  We must be apprentices and serve our time at it.  Painstaking care, much thought, practice, and labour are required to be a skillful tradesman in praying.  Practice in this, as well as in all other trades, makes perfect.” E.M. Bounds

6. “Prayer honours God, acknowledges His being, exalts His power, adores His providence, secures His aid.” E.M. Bounds

7. “The prayer closet is the battlefield of the Church, the base of supplies for the Christian and the Church.  Cut off from it there is nothing left but retreat and disaster.”  E.M. Bounds

8. “Let all lovers of souls, and all workers in the service of the gospel, take courage.  Time spent in prayer will yield more than 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.." Andrew Murray

9. “A revival of real praying would produce a spiritual revolution.”  E.M. Bounds

10. “I believe the power of fasting as it relates to prayer is the spiritual atomic bomb that our Lord has given us to destroy the strongholds of evil and usher in a great revival and spiritual harvest around the world.”  Bill Bright, Founder of Campus Crusade for Christ  

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