Pray for 'all men.' We usually pray more for things than we do for men. Our prayers should be thrown across their pathway as they rush in their downward course to a lost eternity.

Prayer is a trade to be learned. We must be apprentices and serve our time at it. Painstaking care, much thought, practice and labour are required to be a skillful tradesman in praying. Practice in this, as well as in all other trades, makes perfect.

The greatest value in trouble comes to those who bow lowest before the throne.

Prayer succeeds when all else fails

We can never expect to grow in the likeness of our Lord unless we follow His example and give more time to communion with the Father. A revival of real praying would produce a spiritual revolution.

The most important lesson we can learn is how to pray. Prayers do not die, prayers live before God, and God's heart is set on them.

A severe apprenticeship in the trade of praying must be served in order to become a journeyman in it.