Prayer is the supreme activity of all that is noblest in our personality, and the essential nature of prayer is faith.

Only one in a thousand sits down in the midst of it all and says—I will watch my Father mend this. God must not be treated as a hospital for our broken “toys,” but as our Father.

Watch your motive before God; have no other motive in prayer than to know Him.

We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle.

There is a call to spiritual perseverance. A call not to hang on and do nothing, but to work deliberately, knowing with certainty that God will never be defeated.

Is the Son of God praying in me, or am I dictating to Him?... Prayer is not simply getting things from God, that is a most initial form of prayer; prayer is getting into perfect communion with God. If the Son of God is formed in us by regeneration, He will press forward in front of our common sense and change our attitude to the things about which we pray.

Faith that is sure of itself is not faith; faith that is sure of God is the only faith there is.