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.

Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still. He will never talk well and with real success to men for God who has not learned well how to talk to God for men.

Little praying is a kind of make believe, a salve for the conscience, a farce and a delusion.

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

Crucified preaching only can give life. Crucified preaching can come only from a crucified man.

No learning can make up for the failure to pray. No earnestness, no diligence, no study, no gifts will supply its lack.

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.