A Growing List of Quotes from DA Carson's Book on Prayer

"All of us would be wiser if we would resolve never to put people down, except on our prayer lists." (11)

"If some generations need to learn that God is not particularly impressed by long-winded prayers, and is not more disposed to help us just because we are garrulous, our generation needs to learn that God is not impressed by the kind of brevity that is nothing other than culpable negligence. He is not more disposed to help us because our insincerity and spiritual flightiness conspire to keep our prayers brief." (17)

"Pray as you can, and don't try to pray as you can't." (John Chapman, 20)