Our praying, to be strong, must be buttressed by holy living. The life of faith perfects the prayer of faith.

Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still.

You will find out that in the measure you have allowed yourself to look back you have missed that which God has for you.

Those who know God the best are the richest and most powerful in prayer. Little acquaintance with God, and strangeness and coldness to Him, make prayer a rare and feeble thing.

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

The ministry of prayer, if it be anything worthy of the name, is a ministry of ardor, a ministry of unwearied and intense longing after God and after his holiness.

Importunity is a condition of prayer. We are to press the matter, not with vain repetitions, but with urgent repetitions. We repeat, not to count the times, but to gain the prayer. We cannot quit praying because heart and soul are in it. We pray "with all perseverance." We hang to our prayers because by them we live. We press our pleas because we must have them, or die.