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

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

The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men.

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.

The prayers of God's saints strengthen the unborn generation against the desolating waves of sin and evil.

Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element of prayer. Men must be in earnest when they kneel at God's footstool. Too often we get faint-hearted and quit praying at the point where we ought to begin. We let go at the very point where we should hold on strongest. Our prayers are weak because they are not impassioned by an unfailing and resistless will.

. . . every preacher who does not make prayer a mighty factor in his own life and ministry is weak as a factor in God's work and is powerless to project God's cause in this world.