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.

Prayer succeeds when all else fails

It is not great talents or great learning or great preachers that God needs, but men great in holiness, great in faith, great in love, great in fidelity, great for God.

To give prayer the secondary place is to make God seconday in life's affairs.

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.

We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer. That is the teaching of Jesus Christ

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