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

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

Prayer is a specific divine appointment, an ordinance of Heaven, whereby God purposes to carry out His gracious designs on earth and to execute and make efficient the plan of salvation.

A man can pray better because of the prayers of the past; a man can live holier because of the prayers of the past; the man of many and acceptable prayers has done the truest and greatest service to the incoming generation.

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

Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element in prayer.

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