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.

It takes us long to learn that prayer is more important than organization, more powerful than armies, more influential than wealth and mightier than all learning.

The one concern of the devil is to keep Christians from praying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work, and prayer-less religion. He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray.

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

Men ablaze are invincible. Hell trembles when men kindle. The stronghold of Satan is proof against everything but fire. The Church is powerless without the flame of the Holy Ghost. Destitute of fire, nothing else really counts; possessed of fire, nothing else really matters. The one vital need is fire. Without the flame and fervour of the Holy Ghost the Church will never accomplish its mission.

The soul is never less alone than when it is alone with God.