Francis de Sales: "He who prays fervently knows not whether he prays or not, for he is not thinking of the prayer which he makes, but of God, to whom he makes it."
P. Y. Forsyth: "Not to want to pray is the sin behind sin."
E. M. Bounds: "To pray is the greatest thing we can do, and to do it well, there must be calmness, time, and deliberation."
Edward J. Farrell: "The penalty of not praying is the loss of one's capacity to pray."
George H. Gallup, Jr.: "Any revitalization of faith in this country will have to start with prayer, in which we gain a sense of the living presence of God."
