I am as certain as I am standing here, that the secret of much mischief to our own souls, and to the souls of others, lies in the way that we stint, and starve, and scamp our prayers, by hurrying over them.

No prayer!-No faith!-No Christ in the heart. Little prayer!-Little faith!-Little Christ in the heart. Increasing prayer!-Increasing faith!-Increasing Christ in the heart!. Much prayer!-Much faith!-Much Christ in the heart! Praying always!-Faith always!-Christ always!

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

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

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

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.

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