The more helpless you are, the better you are fitted to pray, and the more answers to prayer you will experience.

The more helpless you are, the better you are fitted to pray, and the more answers to prayer you will experience.

My helpless friend, your helplessness is the most powerful plea which rises up to the tender father-heart of God. You think that everything is closed to you because you cannot pray. My friend, your helplessness is the very essence of prayer.

Without faith there can be no prayer, no matter how great our helplessness may be. Helplessness united with faith produces prayer.

The quiet hour of prayer is one of the most favorable opportunities

If God does not give you something you ask for, wait on Him. He will speak with you tenderly and sympathetically about the matter until you yourself understand that He cannot grant your prayer.

God alone fully understands what each one of us needs; we make mistakes continually and pray for things which would be harmful to us if we received them. Afterwards we see our mistakes and realize that God is good and wise in not giving us these things, even though we plead ever so earnestly for them.