"If they are wrong they need your prayers all the more; and if they are your enemies, then you are under orders to pray for them."- C. S. Lewis
"However you choose to pray for your children, just know that when you do this, it is a sweet fragrance to the Lord." - Whitney Lett
“People do not drift toward holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord. We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; we drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; we drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation; we slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism; we slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated.” - D.A. Carson
"The more we pray, the more we shall want to pray. The more we pray, the more we can pray. The more we pray, the more we shall pray. He who prays little will pray less, but he who prays much will pray more. And he who prays more, will desire to pray more abundantly."
- Charles Spurgeon
"The kids who need the most love will ask for it in the most unloving of ways."
"The only person who dares wake up a king at 3:00am for a glass of water is a child. We have that kind of access."
- Timothy Keller
"Not for me to win, but to keep everyone else safe."
- Formula One champion driverLewis Hamilton on why he prays before races.
"Lord, enlighten what's dark in me, strengthen what's weak in me, mend what's broken in me, bind what's bruised in me, heal what's sick in me, and lastly, revive whatever peace and love has died in me."
- Anonymous
"People ask me, 'Why pray if God is sovereign?' I respond, 'Why pray if He isn't?'"
- Michael Horton
Preachers are the absolute worst people to listen to sermons. So here is the prayer I use to prep myself:
Lord, save me from compare, contrast, critique. Move me from cerebration to celebration. Free me to hear You in and through your messenger today. Amen.
– Leonard Sweet
Regarding prayer: "What Christ needed, we cannot afford to neglect."
- Alexander MacLaren
"Don't bother to give God instructions; just report for duty."
- Corrie Ten Boom
"Watch, O Lord, with those who wake, or watch, or weep tonight."
- St. Augustine
"I heard your prayer. Trust my timing."
- TobyMac #SpeakLife
"What wings are to a bird and sails to a ship, so is prayer to the soul."
"Airports see more sincere kisses than wedding halls. The walls of hospitals have heard more prayers than the walls of churches."
- Unknown
"It is not my responsibility in what form God answers my questions for guidance. That, is quite safe in His hands. The only thing that I know is that God is light, and not darkness. Those who trust Him, He does not leave in darkness. He is a very, very good shepherd."
- Corrie ten Boom
"Prayer has a way of blowing wind into other sails in your life that you might not even be praying about."
- Adam Stadtmiller
"Consistency in prayer will not come and lie at your feet. You need to fight for it with a determined resolve. And this is where the foundation of prayer is laid, in resolution. People who often experience prayer in its deepest ways are people who show up most regularly, seeking God in prayer's glorious monotony."
"The key to mining is digging. The key to prayer is praying."
"Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you."
"Why wish upon a star when you can pray to the One who created it?
