Trouble and prayer are closely related. Trouble often drives men to God in prayer, while prayer is but the voice of men in trouble.

Little praying is a kind of make believe, a salve for the conscience, a farce and a delusion.

The central significance of prayer is not in the things that happen as results, but in the deepening intimacy and unhurried communion with God at His central throne of control in order to discover a sense of God's need in order to call on God's help to meet that need.

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

Heavenly citizenship and heavenly homesickness are in prayer. Prayer is an appeal from the lowness, from the emptiness, from the need of earth, to the highness, the fullness and to the all-sufficiency of heaven.

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

Prayer honors God, acknowledges His being, exalts His power, adores His providence, secures His aid.