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

God requires to be represented by a fiery Church... two things are intolerable to Him-insincerity and lukewarmness.

I think Christians fail so often to get answers to their prayers because they do not wait long enough on God. They just drop down and say a few words, and then jump up and forget it and expect God to answer them. Such praying always reminds me of the small boy ringing his neighbor's door-bell, and then running away as fast as he can go.

Prayer is no fitful, short-lived thing. It is no voice crying unheard and unheeded in the silence. It is a voice which goes into God's ear, and it lives as long as God's ear is open to holy pleas, as long as God's heart is alive to holy things.

Prayer is God's plan to supply man's great and continuous need with God's great and continuous abundance.

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

The stream of praying cannot rise higher than the fountain of living.