A life growing in its purity and devotion will be a more prayerful life.

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

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.

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.

Only God can move mountains, but faith and prayer can move God

If God is not first in our thoughts and efforts in the morning, He will be in the last place the remainder of the day.

Praying which does not result in pure conduct is a delusion. We have missed the whole office and virtue of praying if it does not rectify conduct. It is in the very nature of things that we must quit praying, or quit bad conduct.