Prayer is the acid test of devotion.

The Christian religion is hopeless without the Holy Ghost.

Satan dreads nothing but prayer. . . . The Church that lost its Christ was full of good works. Activities are multiplied that meditation may be ousted, and organizations are increased that prayer may have no chance. Souls may be lost in good works, as surely as in evil ways. The one concern of the devil is to keep the saints from praying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work, and prayerless religion. He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray.

The great souls who became mighty in prayer and rejoiced to spend three and four hours a day alone with God were once beginners.

In these days there is no time to pray; but without time, and a lot of it, we shall never learn to pray.

Truth without enthusiasm, morality without emotion, ritual without soul, are things Christ unsparingly condemned. Destitute of fire, they are nothing more than a godless philosophy, an ethical system, and a superstition.

True prayer is a lonely business.