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

Prayer is a rising up and a drawing near to God in mind and in heart, and in spirit.

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

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.

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.

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

Every kind of prayer, not intercessory prayer only, which is the highest kind of prayer, but all prayer, from the lowest kind to the highest, is impossible in a life of known and allowed sin.