"Work, work, from morning until late at night. In fact, I have so much to do that I shall have to spend the first three hours in prayer."
Martin Luther

"Nothing tends more to cement the hearts of Christians than praying together. Never do they love one another so well as when they witness the outpouring of each other's hearts in prayer."
Charles Finney

"In fasting, we are free from compulsion and self-centered living."
Karl Thienes

"Prayer lays hold of God's plan and becomes the link between His will and its accomplishment on earth. Amazing things happen, and we are given the privilege of being the channels of the Holy Spirit's prayer."
Elisabeth Elliot

"When at night you cannot sleep, talk to the Shepherd and stop counting sheep."
Author unknown [or was to embarrassed to confess!]

"When prayer is a struggle, do not worry about the prayers that you cannot pray. You yourself are a prayer to God at that moment. All that is within you cries out to Him, and He hears all the pleas that your suffering soul and body are making to Him with groanings which cannot be uttered."
O. Hallesby

"What seem our worst prayers may really be, in God’s eyes, our best. Those, I mean, which are least supported by devotional feeling. For these may come from a deeper level than feeling. God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard."
C.S. Lewis