"There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful than that of a continual conversation with God." (Brother Lawrence)

"Our judgment tells us we ought to pray - to pray whether we feel like it or not - and not allow our feelings to determine our habits of prayer. In such circumstances, we ought to pray for the desire to pray; for such a desire is God-given and heaven-born." (E.M. Bounds)

"God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede."  (Oswald Chambers)

"If you are sick, fast and pray; if the language is hard to learn, fast and pray; if the people will not hear you, fast and pray, if you have nothing to eat, fast and pray." (Frederick Franson)

"We hear it said that a man will suffer in his life is he does not pray; I question it. What will suffer is the life of the Son of God within him, which is nourished not by food but by prayer...Prayer is the way the life of God is nourished." (Oswald Chambers)

"The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men. The Holy Ghost does not flow through methods, but through men. He does not come on machinery, but on men. He does not anoint plans, but men...Men of prayer." (E. M. Bounds)

"We waste most of our time trying to get God to do something He has already done--or praying for God to do something He told us to do." (Jacquelyn K. Heasley)

"Those who do not believe do not pray. This is a good functional definition of faith. Faith prays, unbelief does not." (John A. Hardon)

"Prayer is the language of a man burdened with a sense of need." (E.M. Bounds)

"Faith in a prayer-hearing God will make a prayer-loving Christian." (Andrew Murray)

"The Third Petition of the Lord's Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone's will be done but their own." (Aldous Huxley)

"We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another." (William Law)

"Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?" (Corrie Ten Boom)

"Of all the duties enjoined by Christianity none is more essential and yet more neglected than prayer." (François Fénelon)

"There is a general kind of praying which fails for lack of precision. It is as if a regiment of soldiers should all fire off their guns anywhere. Possibly somebody would be killed, but the majority of the enemy would be missed." (Charles Haddon Spurgeon)