The one concern of the devil is to keep the saint from praying.
He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work, prayerless religion.
He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but he trembles when we pray.
~Samuel Chadwick

"If any man thirst"

Souls of men have been thirsty ever since Adam turned his back on God. Thirsty for rest; thirsty for peace; thirsty for eternal life; thirsty for God. The greatest and the least; the wisest and the most simple; the outcast and the Pharisee, they all know this thirst. Here was a man who dared to cry, "If any man thirst let him come unto me and drink." If He were only a man, these words were among the most blasphemous ever spoken. Had any other man but Christ said these words, he would be either pitied as a madman, or scorned as a most notorious blasphemer. No one feels that way about Him. These words from His lips carry with them the simple conviction of truth, so that without the least effort we bow our hearts to their blessed proclamation. But what wonderful words they are! Think of Him being able to quench the thirst of any man any where! This stranger from Galilee! this "carpenter" from Nazareth declaring He could meet the deep desires of the souls of men! How utterly stupendous the declaration! How absolutely God-like the promises! Surely, never man spake like this man.

~taken from
"Our Lord Jesus Christ: A Plant of Renown"
by Leonard Sheldrake

“He who would learn to pray well,
must first study God’s Word,
and store it in his memory and thought.”
~ E. M. Bounds

"Religion is man searching for God;
Christianity is God seeking man,
manifesting Himself to him,
drawing Himself unto him."
~Martyn Lloyd-Jones,
Life in the Spirit, pg 380

Go & Tell

“We must go everywhere, and tell everyone.
There is no pit so deep that He is not deeper still.”
~Betsie Ten Boom

"Everywhere there is apathy. Nobody cares whether that which is preached is true or false. A sermon is a sermon whatever the subject; only the shorter it is, the better."
~ C.H. Spurgeon

It Will Take Your Life

“How could we have such a low view of the gospel of Jesus Christ that we have to manipulate men psychologically to get them to come down and pray a prayer? . . . How many times have I heard evangelists say, “It’ll only take five minutes.“? No my dear friend, it will take your life–all of it! “We’re just trying to attract people and then we’ll gradually bring them in further and further.” That is what the cults do, that’s not what Jesus did. Notice that in the gospels every time a great crowd is following Jesus, he turns around and says something so radical to them that most of them walk away. Of course Jesus probably would not get invited to teach evangelism [in most churches today].”
~Paul Washer