The most important lesson we can learn is how to pray. Prayers do not die, prayers live before God, and God's heart is set on them.

Non-praying is lawlessness, discord, anarchy.

No erudition, no purity of diction, no width of mental outlook, no flowers of eloquence, no grace of person can atone for lack of fire. Prayer ascends by fire. Flame gives prayer access as well as wings, acceptance as well as energy. There is no incense without fire; no prayer without flame.

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.

Prayer is the greatest of all forces, because it honors God and brings him into active aid.

We can never know God as it is our privilege to know Him by brief repetitions that are requests for personal favors, and nothing more.

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