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The purpose of prayer is to reveal the presence of God equally present, all the time, in every condition.

Prayer is the midwife of mercy, that helps to bring it forth.

Though we cannot by our prayers give God any information, yet we must by our prayers give him honor.

The physical voice we use in prayer need not be great nor startling; even should we not lift up any great cry or shout, God will yet hear us.

Jesus Christ carries on intercession for us in heaven; the Holy Ghost carries on intercession in us on earth; and we the saints have to carry on intercession for all men.

The less I pray, the harder it gets; the more I pray, the better it goes.

Against the persecution of a tyrant the godly have no remedy but prayer.

I have to hurry all day to get time to pray.

We read of preaching the Word out of season, but we do not read of praying out of season, for that is never out of season.

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.

Are you weak? Weary? Confused? Troubled? Pressured? How is your relationship with God? Is it held in its place of priority? I believe the greater the pressure, the greater your need for time alone with Him.

The answer of our prayers is secured by the fact that in rejecting them God would in a certain sense deny His own nature.

God's promises are to be our pleas in prayer.

Prayer time must be kept up as duly as meal-time.

Where do you run for help? When you are in trouble, what is your first instinct? Do you run to others or to God? Is it usually the counsel of another rather than the counsel found in waiting upon God in prayer? Why is this the way it is? Why do we run to man before we run to God?

The truths that I know best I have learned on my knees. I never know a thing well, till it is burned into my heart by prayer.

Prayer is an ordinance of God, that must continue with a soul so long as it is on this side glory.

It is not the mouth that is the main thing to be looked at in prayer, but whether the heart is so full of affection and earnestness in prayer with God, that it is impossible to express their sense and desire; for then a man desires indeed, when his desires are so strong, many, and mighty, that all the words, tears, and groans that can come from the heart, cannot utter them.

Prayer is an all-efficient panoply, a treasure undiminished, a mine which is never exhausted, a sky unobscured by clouds, a heaven unruffled by the storm. It is the root, the fountain, the mother of a thousand blessings.

We know not the matter of the things for which we should pray, neither the object to whom we pray, nor the medium by or through whom we pray; none of these things know we, but by the help and assistance of the Spirit.

The potency of prayer hath subdued the strength of fire; it hath bridled the rage of lions, hushed anarchy to rest, extinguished wars, appeased the elements, expelled demons, burst the chains of death, expanded the gates of heaven, assuaged diseases, repelled frauds, rescued cities from destruction, stayed the sun in its course, and arrested the progress of the thunderbolt.