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.

When trust is perfect and there is no doubt, prayer is simply the outstretched hand ready to receive.

We can learn more in an hour praying, when praying indeed, than from many hours of rigorous study.

Heaven is too busy to listen to half-hearted prayers or to respond to pop-calls.

Prayer is of transcendent importance. Prayer is the mightiest agent to advance God's work. Praying hearts and hands only can do God's work. Prayer succeeds when all else fails.

The lazy man does not, will not, cannot pray, for prayer demands energy.

Public prayers are of little worth unless they are founded on or followed up by private praying.