You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed.

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

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.

No man's hand has ever yet reached up to take as much as the Pierced Hand is reaching down to give.

Jesus is God spelling Himself out in language that men can understand.

The great people of the earth today are the people who pray. I do not mean those who talk about prayer, nor those who say they believe in prayer, nor yet those who can explain about prayer; but I mean these people who take time and pray. They have not time. It must be taken from something else. This something else is important, very important, and pressing, but still less important and less pressing than prayer. There are people that put prayer first, and group the other items in life's schedule around and after prayer.

The real victory in all service is won in secret beforehand by prayer.