Prayer

“If I were to attend only your church’s main worship service, would I think that your church is a house of prayer?” - Chuck Lawless

“We are often brought to our knees after losing a battle. But we need to fall to our knees before the battle begins.” - Randy Alcorn

“Eastern religions often encourage their practitioners to “empty” themselves through meditation in order to achieve enlightenment or lasting peace and harmony. … Christian forms of meditation are closely associated with prayer. Prayer is a conversation with another to whom we turn—someone outside ourselves.” - Ligonier

“We pray, oh Lord, that the civil magistrate, as Romans 13 teaches, might be a defense for those who do good and bear the sword against those who do evil. And even as we pray for justice, we are also mindful of Proverbs 24 ‘do not rejoice when your enemy falls, and let your heart be glad when he stumbles, lest the Lord see it, and be displeased, and turn away his anger from him.’” - Kevin DeYoung

“What are we to do when we know that God has called us to pray but we don’t want to pray? H.B. Charles speaks to this situation when he says we are to pray when we feel like it and when we don’t feel like it.” - Challies

“To overcome sluggishness in prayer, you don’t need another technique. You need a heart of humble dependence.” - TGC

“1. Walking and praying helps me to concentrate on prayer. The TV is not on. My laptop is back in my office…. 2. Walking and praying pushes me to break away from my work – which, if I’m honest, can become an idol to me…. 3. Walking and praying gives me at least some exercise.” - Chuck Lawless

“Linneman… inspires readers to move beyond intellectual acknowledgment of the need to pray and into a vibrant, God-dependent practice of prayer. He begins by establishing our identity as children of the Father and then moves into practical instructions.” - TGC

“there is one key contribution that Christians alone can make to politics: prayer. While I’ll grant that people of any faith can pray and perhaps even do pray for the political process, only Christians can pray and be heard.” - Challies