The one thing that is said to have surprised God is that the voice of intercession had ceased. 'And He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor' (Isaiah 59:16).

A season of silence is the best preparation for speech with God.

It is wonderful what God can do with a broken heart, if He gets all the pieces.

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

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

Prayer turns ordinary mortals into men of power. It brings power. It brings fire. It brings rain. It brings life. It brings God.

I owe everything to the gift of Pentecost. For fifty days the facts of the Gospel were complete, but no conversions were recorded. Pentecost registered three thousand souls. It is by fire that a holy passion is kindled in the soul whereby we live the life of God. The soul's safety is in its heat. Truth without enthusiasm, morality without emotion, ritual without soul, make for a Church without power.