No learning can make up for the failure to pray. No earnestness, no diligence, no study, no gifts will supply its lack.

We can never know God as it is our privilege to know Him by brief repetitions that are requests for personal favors, and nothing more.

True praying has the largest results for good; and poor praying, the least. We cannot do too much of real praying; we cannot do too little of the sham. We must learn anew the worth of prayer, enter anew the school of prayer. There is nothing which it takes more time to learn.

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

No learning can make up for the failure to pray. No earnestness, no diligence, no study, no gifts will supply its lack.

When trust is perfect and there is no doubt, prayer is simply the outstretched hand ready to receive.

A holy life does not live in the closet, but it cannot live without the closet.