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

The greatest thing anyone can do for God or man is pray.

God's greatest agency; man's greatest agency, for defeating the enemy and winning men back is intercession.

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.

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

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 be anything that can render the soul calm, dissipate its scruples and dispel its fears, sweeten its sufferings by the anointing of love, impart strength to all its actions, and spread abroad the joy of the Holy Spirit in its countenance and words, it is this simple and childlike repose in the arms of God.