The greatest and best talent that God gives to any man or woman in this world is the talent of prayer.

There are two ways to read Scripture - the way a lawyer reads a will and the way an heir reads a will.

It is the holiness of our Lord's heart that fills the New Testament full and makes it the unparalleled and unapproachable Book that it is.

If you would move me with your preaching, or with your praying, or with your singing, first be moved yourself.

Prayer worth calling prayer, prayer that God will call true prayer and will treat as true prayer, takes for more time by the clock than one man in a thousand thinks.

If you find your life of prayer to be always so short, and so easy, and so spiritual, as to be without cost and strain and sweat to you, you may depend upon it, you have not yet begun to pray.

Admit sin, and you banish prayer. But, on the other hand, entertain, and encourage, and practice prayer, and sin will sooner or later flee before it.