Quotes from R. A. Torrey

If loving God with all our heart and soul and might is the greatest commandment, then it follows that not loving Him that way is the greatest sin.

Worship is adoring contemplation of God.

If you and I are to be used in our sphere as D.L. Moody was used in his, we must put all that we have and all that we are in the hands of God, for Him to use as He will.

Wealth, honors, pleasures, is not so eagerly to be desired as the forgiveness of our sins.

We are too busy to pray, and so we are too busy to have power. We have a great deal of activity, but we accomplish little; many services but few conversions; much machinery but few results.

The chief purpose of prayer is that God may be glorified in the answer.

Prayer that is born of meditation upon the Word of God is the prayer that soars upward most easily to God's listening ears.

All that God is, and all that God has, are at the disposal of player. Prayer can do anything that God can do, and as God can do anything, prayer is omnipotent.

Prayer is the key that unlocks all the storehouses of God's. . .grace and power.

The Spirit, when He prays through us, or helps us to meet the mighty "ougthness" of right praying, trims our praying down to the will of God.

Triumphant prayer is almost impossible where there is neglect of the study of the Word of God.

God has not changed; and His ear is just as quick to hear the voice of real prayer, and His hand is just as long and strong to save; as it ever was.

We are too busy to pray, and so we are too busy to have power.

Every true revival from that day to this has had its earthly origin in prayer.

I prayed fifteen years for the conversion of my oldest brother. When he seemed to be getting further and further away from any hope of conversion, I prayed on.

If we then let the words of Christ abide in us, they will stir us up in prayer.

Prayer will promote our personal holiness as nothing else, except the study of the Word of God.

The life of entire surrender is a joyous life all along the way.

Just as one gets the firstfruits of spiritual salvation in the life that now is, so we get the firstfruits of our physical salvation in the life that now is.

The one who is truly born again will love the Word of God.

Any church may have a mighty man of God for its pastor, if it is willing to pay the price, and that price is not a big salary, but great praying.

Those persons who know the deep peace of God, the unfathomable peace that passeth all understanding, are always men and women of much prayer.

The man or woman at home who prays often has as much to do with the effectiveness of the missionary on the field, and consequently with the results of his or her labors, as the missionary.

Pray for great things, expect great things, work for great things, but above all pray.