“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
“If I should neglect prayer but a single day, I should lose a great deal of the fire of faith.” – Martin Luther
“Reading without meditation is unfruitful; meditation without reading is hurtful; to meditate and to read without prayer upon both is without blessing.”
“All you need to do to learn to pray is to pray.” -Wesley Duewel (Mighty Prevailing Prayer)