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.

Holy living is essential preparation for prayer.

Crucified preaching only can give life. Crucified preaching can come only from a crucified man.

The men who have most fully illustrated Christ in their character and have most powerfully affected the world for Him have been men who spend so much time with God as to make it a notable feature in their lives.

Men would pray better if they lived better. They would get more from God if they lived more obedient and well-pleasing to God.

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

Prayer is no fitful, short-lived thing. It is no voice crying unheard and unheeded in the silence. It is a voice which goes into God's ear, and it lives as long as God's ear is open to holy pleas, as long as God's heart is alive to holy things.