Other duties become pressing and absorbing and crowd out prayer. ‘Choked to death’ would be the coroner’s verdict in many cases of dead praying if an inquest could be secured on this dire, spiritual calamity.
Edward McKendree Bounds
21 Churches can run without prayer. Whole denominations can run without prayer. The question is: Is what they’re doing worth doing if they can do it without prayer?
Ben Patterson
Deepening Your Conversation with God (1991)
Ben Patterson
Prayer is the breath of faith. Prayer meetings are the lungs of the church.