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.

God is waiting to be put to the test by His people in prayer. He delights in being put to the test on His promises. It is His highest pleasure to answer prayer, to prove the reliability of His promises.

If we would have God in the closet, God must have us out of the closet. There is no way of praying to God, but by living to God.

God requires to be represented by a fiery Church... two things are intolerable to Him-insincerity and lukewarmness.

Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.

Trust is faith that has become absolute, approved, and accomplished. When all is said and done, there is a sort of risk in faith and its exercise. But trust is firm belief; it is faith in full bloom. Trust is a conscious act, a fact of which we are aware.

He only can truly pray who is all aglow for holiness, for God, and for heaven.