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.

if the devil can get the church to withdraw from prayer by believing reasonable excuses, the church is under his dominion.

There is neither encouragement nor room in Bible religion for feeble desires, listless efforts, lazy attitudes; all must be strenuous, urgent, ardent. Flamed desires, impassioned, unwearied insistence delight heaven. God would have His children incorrigibly in earnest and persistently bold in their efforts. Heaven is too busy to listen to half-hearted prayers or to respond to pop-calls. Our whole being must be in our praying.

The character of our praying will determine the character of our preaching. Light praying makes light preaching.

If we would have God in the closet, God must have us out of the closet. There is no way of praying to God, but by living to God.

It is hard to wait and press and pray, and hear no voice, but stay till God answers.

Those who know God the best are the richest and most powerful in prayer. Little acquaintance with God, and strangeness and coldness to Him, make prayer a rare and feeble thing.