Quotes about Prayer

The secret of praying is praying in secret.

Notice, we never pray for folks we gossip about, and we never gossip about the folk for whom we pray! For prayer is a great deterrent.

Yet ministers who do not spend two hours a day in prayer are not worth a dime a dozen, degrees or no degrees.

The Cinderella of the church of today is the prayer meeting. This handmaid of the Lord is unloved and unwooed because she is not dripping with the pearls of intellectualism, nor glamorous with the silks of philosophy; neither is she enchanting with the tiara of psychology.

Prayer does not condition God; prayer conditions us. Prayer does not win God to our view; it reveals God's view to us.

No man is greater than his prayer life. The

How many Christians there are who cannot pray, and who seek by effort, resolve, joining prayer circles, etc., to cultivate in themselves the ''holy art of intercession,'' and all to no purpose. Here for them and for all is the only secret of a real prayer life—''Be filled with the Spirit,'' who is ''the Spirit of grace and supplication.'' —REV. J. STUART HOLDEN

Oh! my ministering brethren! Much of our praying is but giving God advice! Our praying is discolored with ambition, either for ourselves or for our denomination. Perish the thought! Our goal must be God alone. It is His honor that is sullied, His blessed Son who is ignored, His laws broken, His name profaned, His Book forgotten, His house made a circus of social efforts.

For this sin-hungry age we need a prayer-hungry Church.

Prayer makes the soul tender.

The ugly fact is that altar fires are either out or burning very low. The prayer meeting is dead or dying. By our attitude to prayer we tell God that what was begun in the Spirit we can finish in the flesh. What church ever asks its candidating ministers what time they spend in prayer? Yet ministers who do not spend two hours a day in prayer are not worth a dime a dozen, degrees or no degrees.

There is something very questionable and unbiblical about those who claim a baptism of the Spirit and yet know nothing of extended periods in prayer.