Non-praying is lawlessness, discord, anarchy.

Importunate praying is the earnest inward movement of the heart toward God.

Other duties become pressing and absorbing and crowd our prayer. "Choked to death" would be the coroner's verdict in many cases of dead praying if an inquest could be secured on this dire, spiritual calamity.

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

We can learn more in an hour praying, when praying indeed, than from many hours of rigorous study.

Praying men are God's agents on earth, the representative of government of Heaven, set to a specific task on the earth.

Faith, and hope, and patience and all the strong, beautiful, vital forces of piety are withered and dead in a prayerless life. The life of the individual believer, his personal salvation, and personal Christian graces have their being, bloom, and fruitage in prayer.