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.

We must lose all for Christ in order to gain all for Christ.

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

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

In doing God's work, there is no substitute for praying. The men of prayer cannot be displaced with other kinds of men.

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.

God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. The lips that uttered them may be closed to death, the heart that felt them may have ceased to beat, but the prayers live before God, and God's heart is set on them and prayers outlive the lives of those who uttered them; they outlive a generation, outlive an age, outlive a world.