The character of our praying will determine the character of our preaching. Light praying makes light preaching.

Importunity is a condition of prayer. We are to press the matter, not with vain repetitions, but with urgent repetitions. We repeat, not to count the times, but to gain the prayer. We cannot quit praying because heart and soul are in it. We pray "with all perseverance." We hang to our prayers because by them we live. We press our pleas because we must have them, or die.

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

Prayer is the greatest of all forces, because it honors God and brings him into active aid.

It is true that Bible prayers in word and print are short, but the praying men of the Bible were with God through many a sweet and holy wrestling hour. They won by few words but long waiting.

He only can truly pray who is all aglow for holiness, for God, and for heaven.

No insistence in the Scripture is more pressing than that we must pray...How clear it is, when the Bible is consulted, that the almighty God is brought directly into the things of this world by the prayers of His people.