“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
“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
“In every storm there is a ‘Peace! Be still.’ Christ will speak where prayer’s call invites Him (I Timothy 2:1-3)” ~ Jack Hayford
“A satisfying prayer life elevates and purifies every act of body and mind and integrates the entire personality into a single spiritual unit. In the long pull we pray only as well as we live.” -A. W. Tozer
“The primary object of prayer is to know God better; we and our needs should come second.” -Florence Allshorn
“The childish idea that prayer is a handle by which we can take hold of God and obtain whatever we desire, leads to easy disillusionment with both what we had thought to be God and what we had thought to be prayer.” -Robert L. Short
“God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us — as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray.” -John Calvin
“Secret, fervent, believing prayer lies at the root of all personal godliness.” -William Carey
“All that a college course can do for a student is coarse and external compared with the spiritual and delicate refinement obtained by communion with God. …All our libraries and studies are mere emptiness compared with our [prayer] closets. We grow, we wax mighty, we prevail in private prayer.” -Charles Spurgeon