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

Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element in prayer.

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

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

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

God's Word does not say, "Call unto me, and you will thereby be trained into the happy art of knowing how to be denied. Ask, and you will learn sweet patience by getting nothing." Far from it. But it is definite, clear and positive: "Ask, and it shall be given unto you."

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