The greatest value in trouble comes to those who bow lowest before the throne.

In doing God's work, there is no substitute for praying. The men of prayer cannot be displaced with other kinds of men.

We cannot talk to God strongly when we have not lived for God strongly. The closet cannot be made holy to God when the life has not been holy to God.

A life growing in its purity and devotion will be a more prayerful life.

There is neither encouragement nor room in Bible religion for feeble desires, listless efforts, lazy attitudes; all must be strenuous, urgent, ardent. Flamed desires, impassioned, unwearied insistence delight heaven. God would have His children incorrigibly in earnest and persistently bold in their efforts. Heaven is too busy to listen to half-hearted prayers or to respond to pop-calls. Our whole being must be in our praying.

The conditions of praying are the conditions of righteousness, holiness, and salvation.

Walking with God down the avenue of prayer we acquire something of His likeness, and unconsciously we become witnesses to others of His beauty and His grace.