To give prayer the secondary place is to make God seconday in life's affairs.

We cannot talk to God strongly when we have not lived for God strongly. The closet cannot be made holy to God when the life has not been holy to God.

Prayer is the language of a man burdened with a sense of need.

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.

Straight praying is never born of crooked conduct.

The sanctity of prayer is needed to impregnate business. We need the spirit of Sunday carried over to Monday and continued until Saturday. But this cannot be done by prayerless men, but by men of prayer.

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