And then, what is grace? Grace is love. But grace is not love simply, and purely, and alone. Grace and love are, in their innermost essence, one and the same thing.

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

But grace has only one direction that it can take. Grace always flows down.

No man's prayer is acceptable with God whose life is not well pleasing before God.

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.

Prayer is the only way to amend your life: and without prayer, it will never be mended.

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.