Prayer is the acid test of devotion.

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

A gift without a heart behind it is a bribe. God asks for our heart, not our gifts.

The Church gives more time, thought, and money to recreation and sport than to prayer.

The Secret of Praying is Praying in Secret. The secret place of prayer calls for every faculty of mind and heart.

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.

Prayer is the acid test of devotion.