Drive Yourself to Prayer

Force yourself into the prayer life. Regardless of how you feel, drive yourself to prayer.
You will be amazed how halting and stumbling will be your first attempts.
You have been rated, perhaps, as an unusual Christian worker in the Church.
Men look upon you as an outstanding Christian, but if they knew that in behind your public profession there was an empty closet, or an unused prayer room, they would be amazed.
If you live with the Lord in secret, you will be able to pray with great freedom in public.
-- E.W. Kenyon, In His Presence

Passionate Love for God???

To just read the Bible, attend church, and avoid "big" sins -- is this passionate, wholehearted love for God?
-- Francois Fenelon

If you read history . . .

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
-- C.S. Lewis

Hours and Hours of Praying

Hours and hours of praying do not eliminate the need for faith. They may help you to arrive at the position of faith, but without the dynamic of faith, prayer does not prevail.
-- Wesley L. Duewel

Requests for Refusal

Many prayers fail to achieve their purpose because there is no faith behind them. Prayers that are filled with doubt are requests for refusal.
-- Charles Spurgeon