Is prayer your lucky charm?

"When our prayers, such as they are, become no more than the handmaid of our desires, they are not real prayers but a kind of lucky charm in words."

Gordon Keddie
from The Practical Christian

Time Spent in Prayer

"Time spent in prayer will yield more than that given to work. Prayer alone gives work its worth and its success. Prayer opens the way for God Himself to do His work in us and through us. Let our chief work as God's messengers be intercession; in it we secure the presence and power of God to go with us. "

Andrew Murray

Prayer

"Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tyre?"

Corrie Ten Boom

Prayer and Work

"I have seen many men work without praying, though I have never seen any good come out of it; but I have never seen a man pray without working."

Hudson Taylor

To the Young

"To the young: Do not waste your life on trivial pursuits. Fill your hearts with the Scriptures and God's courts with prayer."

Paul Washer

Throwing out the Boathook

If I throw out a boathook from the boat and catch hold of the shore and pull, do I pull the shore to me, or do I pull myself to the shore? Prayer is not pulling God to my will, but the aligning of my will to the will of God.

E. Stanley Jones

Pray Constantly

"As impossible as it is for us to take a breath in the morning large enough to last us until noon, so impossible is it to pray in the morning in such a way as to last us until noon. Let your prayers ascend to Him constantly, audibly or silently, as circumstances throughout the day permit."

Ole Hallesby
from Prayer