We can never expect to grow in the likeness of our Lord unless we follow His example and give more time to communion with the Father. A revival of real praying would produce a spiritual revolution.

Love is kindled in a flame, and ardency is its life. Flame is the air which true Christian experience breathes. It feeds on fire; it can withstand anything rather than a feeble flame; but when the surrounding atmosphere is frigid or lukewarm, it dies, chilled and starved to its vitals. True prayer must be aflame.

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

Natural ability and educational advantages do not figure as factors in this matter of prayer; but a capacity for faith, the power of a thorough consecration, the ability of self-littleness, an absolute losing of one's self in God's glory and an ever present and insatiable yearning and seeking after all the fullness of God.

Importunate praying is the earnest inward movement of the heart toward God.

The little estimate we put on prayer is evidence from the little time we give to it.

God shapes the world by prayer. The more prayer there is in the world the better the world will be, the mightier the forces of against evil