「要清明適度，並且要謹慎自守，以便禱告。」－彼得前書4:7
晚間屈膝禱告時，你的眼皮因疲倦而沈重，一天的辛勞成為藉口，你縮短了禱告，進入甜美夢鄉；清晨時分，你起身太晚，晨間的禱告只好略去，或倉促了事。
哦，沒有儆醒禱告！請記得，忽略掉的儆醒是永遠無法補救的，因為沒有什麼能彌補錯過的禱告。
你若放棄禱告，你必會因此受苦。試探將在眼前，你將力不能勝；你的良心要出現破口，一點一滴漏掉了神的同在。
因著懈怠而失去的禱告，是追不回來的。
這一天照樣會過去，但禱告時從主而得的滋潤和力量，卻和你無分無關了。－羅伯生
我們不知道耶穌在禱告時得著了什麼，但我們的確知道，不禱告的生命，是個無力的生命。
一個不禱告的生命，或許也能忙碌喧囂，漫天價響；但卻無可避免地遠離了那位晝夜不住禱告的耶穌。－選
"Watch unto prayer" (1 Peter 4:7).Go not, my friend, into the dangerous world without prayer. You kneel down at night to pray, drowsiness weighs down your eyelids; a hard day's work is a kind of excuse, and you shorten your prayer, and resign yourself softly to repose. The morning breaks; and it may be you rise late, and so your early devotions are not done, or are done with irregular haste.
No watching unto prayer! Wakefulness once more omitted; and now is that reparable? We solemnly believe not.
There has been that done which cannot be undone. You have given up your prayer, and you will suffer for it.
Temptation is before you, and you are not ready to meet it. There is a guilty feeling on the soul, and you linger at a distance from God. It is no marvel if that day in which you suffer drowsiness to interfere with prayer be a day in which you shrink from duty.
Moments of prayer intruded on by sloth cannot be made up. We may get experience, but we cannot get back the rich freshness and strength which were wrapped up in those moments. --Frederick W. Robertson.
If Jesus, the strong Son of God, felt it necessary to rise before the breaking of the day to pour out His heart to God in prayer, how much more ought you to pray unto Him who is the Giver of every good and perfect gift, and who has promised all things necessary for our good.
What Jesus gathered into His life from His prayers we can never know; but this we do know, that the prayerless life is a powerless life. A prayerless life may be a noisy life, and fuss around a great deal; but such a life is far removed from Him who, by day and night, prayed to God. --Selected
