He who is too busy to pray will be too busy to live a holy life. Satan had rather we let the grass grow on the path to our prayer chamber than anything else.

The pride of learning is against the dependent humility of prayer.

A life growing in its purity and devotion will be a more prayerful life.

If God is not first in our thoughts and efforts in the morning, He will be in the last place the remainder of the day.

Men would pray better if they lived better. They would get more from God if they lived more obedient and well-pleasing to God.

It is necessary to iterate and reiterate that prayer, as a mere habit, as a performance gone through by routine or in a professional way, is a dead and rotten thing.

Preaching is not the performance of an hour. It is the outflow of a life. It takes twenty years to make a sermon because it takes twenty years to make the man. The true sermon is a thing of life. The sermon grows because the man grows.