Non-praying is lawlessness, discord, anarchy.

Hope looks toward the future. Trust looks to the present. Hope expects. Trust possesses...what prayer needs, at all times, is abiding and abundant trust.

Heaven is too busy to listen to half-hearted prayers or to respond to pop-calls.

Praying men must be strong in hope, and faith, and prayer.

Importunity is a condition of prayer. We are to press the matter, not with vain repetitions, but with urgent repetitions. We repeat, not to count the times, but to gain the prayer. We cannot quit praying because heart and soul are in it. We pray "with all perseverance." We hang to our prayers because by them we live. We press our pleas because we must have them, or die.

It is only when the whole heart is gripped with the passion of prayer that the life-giving fire descends, for none but the earnest man gets access to the ear of God.

The prayers of God's saints strengthen the unborn generation against the desolating waves of sin and evil.