Humility, the place of entire dependence on God, is the first duty and the highest virtue of the creature, and the root of every virtue. And so pride, or the loss of this humility, is the root of every sin and evil.

The great thing in prayer is to feel that we are putting our supplications into the bosom of omnipotent love.

Prayer [is] the quiet, persistent living of our life of desire and faith in the presence of our God.

God cannot hear the prayers on our lips often because the desires of our heart after the world cry out to Him much more strongly and loudly than the our desires for Him.

The root of all virtue and grace, of all faith and acceptable worship, is that we know that we have nothing but what we receive, and bow in deepest humility to wait upon God for it.

Answered prayer is the interchange of love between the Father and His child.

A dead Christ I must do everything for; a living Christ does everything for me.