Quotes: Prayer is the Secret of Power

Happy Monday!

Hope everyone is doing great, I just want to share with you all these powerful quotes about prayer. Prayer is the most powerful weapon for us, "God hears prayer, God heeds prayer, God answers prayer, and God delivers by prayer."  E. M. Bounds

1.  “Time spent alone with God is not wasted.  It changes us; it changes our surroundings; and every Christian who would live the life that counts, and who would have power for service must take time to pray.”  M.E. Andross
2. "Prayer is the greatest of all forces, because it honors God and brings him into active aid."  E.M. Bounds
3. "We must begin to believe that God, in the mystery of prayer, has entrusted us with a force that can move the Heavenly world, and can bring its power down to earth." Andrew Murray
4. "Time spent in prayer will yield more than that given to work. Prayer alone gives work its worth and its success. Prayer opens the way for God Himself to do His work in us and through us. Let our chief work as God's messengers be intercession; in it we secure the presence and power of God to go with us." Andrew Murray
5. "A man who is intimate with God will never be intimidated by men."  Leonard Ravenhill
6. "Prayer is not learned in a classroom but in the closet."  E. M. Bounds
7. "The word of God is the food by which prayer is nourished and made strong."  E. M. Bounds
8. "Prayer wonderfully clears the vision; steadies the nerves; defines duty; stiffens the purpose; sweetens and strengthens the spirit."  S.D. Gordon
9. "If you want that splendid power in prayer, you must remain in loving, living, lasting, conscious, practical, abiding union with the Lord Jesus Christ." C. H. Spurgeon
10. "Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance, but laying hold of His willingness."  Martin Luther.
11. “God shapes the world by prayer. The more prayer there is in the world the better the world will be, the mightier the forces of against evil …” E.M. Bounds
12. "One should never initiate anything that he cannot saturate with prayer." 
13. "You can do more than pray after you have prayed; but you can never do more than pray until you have prayed."  A.J. Gordon
14. "Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer."  John Bunyon
15. "He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life."  William Law

Hope these quotes encourage you.
"Pray without ceasing." 1 Thessalonians 5:17

xo ~ Jennie

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