“When you begin to pray always get into this position, leaning on His bosom. Don’t pray to some one far off. Don’t pray even to some one in the same room.” - Andrew Bonar
“As in the case of prayer, when God prepares the heart to pray, He prepares His ear to hear (Ps. 10:17). So in the case of spiritual hunger, when God prepares the heart to hunger, He will prepare His hand to fill." ~Thomas Watson
"He has ordained beforehand that the day when He prepares our hearts to pray shall be the day when His ear shall hear the desire of the humble, and shall become the season of our deliverance.” ~Isaac Watts
"God graciously determines that warm, affectionate prayers are forerunners of a decreed mercy! These ardent affections are kindled by divine grace when the mercies promised are about to fall on us. Prayer is the chain that draws souls up to God and the mercies of God to us!” ~Samuel Lee
"We do not pray out of hope to alter God's eternal purposes; but we pray to obtain that which God has ordained to be received by our prayers. We ask, that we may be fit to receive what God has from all eternity determined to give by prayer, and not otherwise." ~Ezekiel Hopkins