Enthusiasm is more active than faith, though enthusiasm cannot remove mountains nor call into action any of the omnipotent forces which faith can command. Activity is often at the expense of more solid, useful elements, and generally to the total neglect of prayer. To be too busy with God's work to commune with God, to be busy with doing church work without taking time to talk to God about His work, is the highway to backsliding, and many people have walked therein to the hurt of their immortal souls.

If God is not first in our thoughts and efforts in the morning, He will be in the last place the remainder of the day.

We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer. That is the teaching of Jesus Christ

Prayer is God's plan to supply man's great and continuous need with God's great and continuous abundance.

Four things let us ever keep in mind: God hears prayer, God heeds prayer, God answers prayer, and God delivers by prayer.

Praying that does not result in right thinking and right living is a farce. We have missed the whole office of prayer if it fails to purge our character and correct conduct. We have failed entirely to understand the virtue of prayer, if it does not bring about the revolutionizing of life. In the very nature of tings, we must either quit praying or quit our bad conduct.

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