Our praying, however, needs to be pressed and pursued with an energy that never tires, a persistency which will not be denied, and a courage which never fails.

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

We cannot talk to God strongly when we have not lived for God strongly. The closet cannot be made holy to God when the life has not been holy to God.

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

Only God can move mountains, but faith and prayer can move God

Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.

Prayer, in one phase of its operation, is a disinfectant and a preventive. It purifies the air; it destroys the contagion of evil.