“You know the value of prayer: it is precious beyond all price. Never, never neglect it.” – Sir Thomas Buxton

“None can believe how powerful prayer is, and what it is able to effect, but those who have learned it by experience. It is a great matter when in extreme need to take hold on prayer.” – Martin Luther

“Our praying, however, needs to be pressed and pursued with an energy that never tires, a persistency which will not be denied, and a courage which never fails.” – E. M. Bounds

“He has infinite attention to spare for each one of us. He does not have to deal with us in the mass. You are as much alone with Him as if you were the only being He had ever created.”

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C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“I pray because I can’t help myself. I pray because I’m helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time, waking and sleeping. It doesn’t change God. It changes me.” 

C.S. Lewis

“Prayer does not fit us for the greater work; prayer is the greater work.” – Oswald Chambers