The greatest thing anyone can do for God and for man is to pray. You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed. Prayer is striking the winning blow ... service is gathering up the results.

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

The way from God to a human heart is through a human heart.

Shoes divide men into three classes. Some men wear their father's shoes. They make no decisions of their own. Some are unthinkingly shod by the crowd. The strong man is his own cobbler. He insists on making his own choices. He walks in his own shoes.

The men who seem to know most of God's power have had great, unspeakable longings, at times, for a fresh consciousness of that power.

Prayer strikes the winning blow; service is simply picking up the pieces.

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