Too often we treat prayer as the preparation for the work of the church. Do you not see? Prayer IS the work of the church.

We must build our faith not on fading lights but on the Light that never fails. When 'important' individuals go away we are sad, until we see that they are meant to go, so that only one thing is left for us to do--to look into the face of God for ourselves.

God speaks in the language you know best - not through your ears, but through your circumstances.

The great paralysis of our heart is unbelief.

Prayer is not an exercise, it is the life.

Which are the people who have influenced us most? Not the ones who thought they did, but those who had not the remotest notion that they were influencing us. In the Christian life, the implicit is never conscious, if it is conscious it ceases to have this unaffected loveliness which is the characteristic of the touch of Jesus. We always know when Jesus is at work because He produces in the commonplace something that is inspiring.

Our true character comes out in the way we pray.