The pride of learning is against the dependent humility of prayer.

Bible revelations are not against reason but above reason, for the uses of faith, mans highest faculty.

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

It is necessary to iterate and reiterate that prayer, as a mere habit, as a performance gone through by routine or in a professional way, is a dead and rotten thing.

God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. The lips that uttered them may be closed to death, the heart that felt them may have ceased to beat, but the prayers live before God, and God's heart is set on them and prayers outlive the lives of those who uttered them; they outlive a generation, outlive an age, outlive a world.

He who would pray, must obey.

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