Vance Havner

It is not that God is stingy and must be coaxed, for He "giveth liberally and upbraideth not." It is that we ourselves are so shallow and sinful that we need to tarry before Him until our restless natures can be stilled and the clamor of outside voices be deadened so that we can hear His voice. Such a state is not easily reached, and the men God uses have paid a price in wrestlings and prevailing prayer. But it is such men who rise from their knees confident of His power and go forth to speak with authority.

John of Kronstadt

...people mostly pray as if there were no God with them, or as if He did not heed their prayers. Let us ascribe to the Lord at least the same amount of attention that good parents show to the requests of their children, at least that provident and attentive love which good parents have for their children.
http://www.orthodoxphotos.com/Holy_Fathers/St._John_of_Kronstadt/index.shtml

Elisabeth Elliot

We must quit bending the Word to suit our situation. It is we who must be bent to that Word, our necks that must bow under the yoke.

George Herbert

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/herbert/

Streams of Light

God's way often conflicts with our own desires. His commands can seem foolish and outdated. They are not. God's way is so far above our way that we can barely comprehend. Know that His way is perfect. He knows what is best for us even when His way seem foolish.

S. D. Gordon

The great people of the earth today are the people who pray. I do not mean those who talk about prayer, nor those who say they believe in prayer, nor yet those who can explain about prayer; but I mean these people who take time and pray. They have not time. It must be taken from something else. This something else is important, very important, and pressing, but still less important and less pressing than prayer. There are people that put prayer first, and group the other items in life's schedule around and after prayer.
http://www.peterwade.com/articles/gordsd/biogsdg.shtml

Leonard Ravenhill

Who a man is is not important; What he knows does not matter but what he is to the inscrutable God is what matters. If we displease God, does it matter whom we please? If please Him, does it matter whom we displease?
http://www.Ravenhill.org/

Charles F. Banning

Too many of us have a Christian vocabulary rather than a Christian experience. We think we are doing our duty when we're only talking about it.

Judy Sexton

It is not what WE do for God, but what HE does through us.

William H. Shannon

If God is everywhere, that means that we are at all times in the situation, the setting, that makes prayer possible. For we are at all times in the presence of the One whom we desire to touch, to reach, in prayer. We don't have to go looking for God, as if God were somehow missing from our lives.