This document contains quotes from various authors throughout history about the importance and power of prayer. Many of the quotes emphasize that prayer changes outcomes because it involves God directly in situations. They also suggest that lack of prayer leads to weakness and failure, while consistent prayer strengthens individuals and moves God to act. Overall, the collection of quotes presents prayer as an essential spiritual discipline and a primary way to access God's power and involvement in the world.

1. Great Quotes of Great Men on
PRAYER
by Chinnababu

2. "Prayer does not change
the purpose of God. But
prayer does change the
action of God."
-Chuck Smith

3. "We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on
the difficulties." -Oswald Chambers

4. "The secret of all failure is our failure in
secret prayer." The Kneeling Christian

5. “More things are wrought
by prayer than this world
dreams of.” —Tennyson

6. "Satan does not care how many people read about prayer
if only he can keep them from praying.” -Paul E. Billheimer

7. "Prayer is the greatest of
all forces, because it
honors God and brings
him into active aid."
-E.M. Bounds

8. "God may not always answer prayers, but he
always answers people." –Anonymous

10. "Prayer moves God"

11. "Talking to men for God is a
great thing, but talking to
God for men is greater still."
-E.M. Bounds

12. “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

13. "Prayer is the voice of faith."
–Horne

14. “A man who is intimate with God will never be
intimidated by men.” – Leonard Ravenhill

15. “A man may study because his brain is hungry for knowledge, even
Bible knowledge. But he prays because his soul is hungry for God.”
– Leonard Ravenhill

17. ―Heaven delights and hell
gets depressed when a saint
prays to god‖ —Chinnababu

18. "If I fail to spend two hours in prayer each morning, the devil gets
the victory through the day. I have so much business I cannot get
on without spending three hours daily in prayer.”
Martin Luther

20. “No man – I don’t care how colossal his intellect
–No man is greater than his prayer life.”
– Leonard Ravenhill

24. “I would rather teach
one man to pray than
ten men to preach.”
-Charles Spurgeon

25. “No man is greater than his prayer life. The pastor who is not praying is
playing; the people who are not praying are straying. The pulpit can be a shop
window to display one’s talents; the prayer closet allows no showing off.”
– Leonard Ravenhill

26. “If weak in prayer, we are weak everywhere.”
– Leonard Ravenhill

28. “Prayer draws God Almighty
nigh unto us and brings heaven
on earth.“ -Chinnababu

29. “If weak in prayer, we are weak everywhere.”
– Leonard Ravenhill

31. "Prayer breaks all bars,
dissolves all chains,
opens all prisons, and
widens all straits by
which God's saints have
been held."
-E. M. Bounds

32. "When thou prayest, rather let thy heart be without
words than thy words without heart." –Bunyan

33. "And Satan trembles when he sees the weakest
saint upon his knees." -Cowper

34. "I have found the greatest power in the world is
the power of prayer." -Cecil B. DeMill

35. "Prayer is the first thing, the second thing, the third
necessary thing to a believer....Pray, then, my dear
brother; pray, pray, pray." -Edward Payson

36. "All our strength lies in prayer!" –Spurgeon

37. "Prayerfull man is a Powerful man and Prayer
less man is a Powerless man.“ -Anonymus

38. "Church is the heart of the World, &
Prayer is the Life of the Church.“
-Chinnababu

39. "Hell shaking, world shaping, Heaven reaching
thing is Prayer that’s why never stop Praying.“
-Chinnababu

40. "Prayer is souls blood”
“Prayer is the breadth of Christian life“

41. "Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will
entice a man to cease from prayer." -John Bunyon

42. "Satan trembles when he
sees the weakest
Christian on his knees."
-William Cowper

43. "Pray so that the hell and powers of darkness
may perish or else you will perish.“
-Chinnababu

44. “Do not pray for easy lives!
Pray to be stronger men and women!

45. "Praying Samuels come out of Praying Hannahs"

46. "One may survive without food in a famine land,
One may survive without water in a desert land,
but no one can survive without prayer in spiritual life."
–Chinnababu

47. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers, Pray
for powers equal to your tasks! -Philips Brooks

48. "Prayer is not the preparation for the battle,
but it is the battle.“ -L.Ravenhill