if the devil can get the church to withdraw from prayer by believing reasonable excuses, the church is under his dominion.

Only God can move mountains, but faith and prayer can move God

Those who know God the best are the richest and most powerful in prayer. Little acquaintance with God, and strangeness and coldness to Him, make prayer a rare and feeble thing.

It is necessary to iterate and reiterate that prayer, as a mere habit, as a performance gone through by routine or in a professional way, is a dead and rotten thing.

The first and last stages of holy living are crowned with praying.

if the devil can get the church to withdraw from prayer by believing reasonable excuses, the church is under his dominion.

The ministry of prayer, if it be anything worthy of the name, is a ministry of ardor, a ministry of unwearied and intense longing after God and after his holiness.