Thoughts of heaven quicken our faith. Our only sure and solid foundation is the hope of heaven. The only solution to earth's mysteries, the only righter of earth's wrongs, and the only cure for worldliness, is heaven. We need an infusion of heaven into our faith and hope that will create a homesickness for that blessed place. God's home is heaven. Eternal life and all good were born there and flourish there. All life, happiness, beauty, and glory are native to the home of God. All this belongs to and awaits the heirs of God in heaven. What a glorious inheritance!

Holy living is essential preparation for prayer.

The men who have done the most for God in this world have been early on their knees.

. . . 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.

if the devil can get the church to withdraw from prayer by believing reasonable excuses, the church is under his dominion.

If we would have God in the closet, God must have us out of the closet. There is no way of praying to God, but by living to God.

We can learn more in an hour praying, when praying indeed, than from many hours of rigorous study.