Prayer is partnership with God in His planet-sized purposes, and includes the "all things" beside, as an important detail of the whole.

If there are two persons praying, there are three. If three meet to pray, there are four praying. There is always one more than you can see.

Prayer does not influence God. Prayer surely does influence God. It does not influence His purpose. It does influence His action.

Prayer wonderfully clears the vision; steadies the nerves; defines duty; stiffens the purpose; sweetens and strengthens the spirit.

It takes power for the man of God in the pulpit to speak plainly about particular sins before the faces of those who are living in them; and still more power to do it with the rare tactfulness and tenderness of the Galilean preacher.

If we lose the spirit of 'go,' we have lost the very Christian spirit itself. A disobedient church will become a dead church. It will die of heart failure.

The greatest thing anyone can do for God and man is pray. It is not the only thing; but it is the chief thing. The great people of the earth today are the people who pray. I do not mean those who talk about prayer; not those who can explain about prayer; but I mean those people who take time and pray.