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

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

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.

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

Praise lies upon a higher plane than thanksgiving. When I give thanks, my thoughts still circle about myself to some extent. But in praise my soul ascends to self-forgetting adoration.

The secret prayer chamber is a bloody battleground. Here violent and decisive battles are fought out. Here the fate of souls for time and eternity is determined, in quietude and solitude.

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