„Měli bychom se modlit, jsme-li v náladě na modlitbu, neboť by bylo hříchem zanedbat takovou krásnou příležitost. Měli bychom se modlit, i když nejsme v patřičné náladě, neboť by bylo nebezpečné setrvávat v takovém nezdravém stavu.“

Originál: (en) Pray often; for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.
Zdroj: [Bunyan, John, 1873, The complete works of John Bunyan, Bradley, Garretson & Co., 80, angličtina]

Originál: (en) Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.
Zdroj: [Bunyan, John, Wilson, Samuel, 1736, The Works: Being Several Discourses Upon Various Divine Subjects, Vol.1, E. Gardner, Londýn, 2., 14, angličtina]. Dostupné online. https://books.google.cz/books?id=CDpJAAAAcAAJ&dq/

Originál: (en) How much we ought to hate sin! Instead of loving it, cleaving to it, dallying with it, excusing it, playing with it, we ought to hate it with a deadly hatred.
Zdroj: Expository thoughts on the Gospels, for family and private use: St. Luke, svazek 1. S. 209.

Originál: (en) You have heard a great many Arminian sermons, I dare say; but you never heard an Arminian prayer - for the saints in prayer appear as one in word, and deed and mind. An Arminian on his knees would pray desperately like a Calvinist. He cannot pray about free-will: there is no room for it.
Zdroj: [Spurgeon, Charles, Free Will—A Slave: A Sermon (No. 52), delivered on Sabbath Morning, December 2, 1855, http://www.romans45.org/spurgeon/sermons/0052.htm, 11.2.2016, The Spurgeon Archive, angličtina]