The first and last stages of holy living are crowned with praying.

God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. They outlive the lives of those who uttered them.

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

None but praying leaders can have praying followers. A praying pulpit will beget praying pews. We do greatly need pastors and evangelists who will set the saints to this business of praying. We are not a generation of praying saints. Who will restore this breach? The greatest will he be of reformers who can set the Church to praying.

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

When trust is perfect and there is no doubt, prayer is simply the outstretched hand ready to receive.

The lazy man does not, will not, cannot pray, for prayer demands energy.