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

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.

There is no way of learning to pray but by praying. No reasoned philosophy of prayer ever taught a soul to pray. We know not what we should pray for as we ought, and if prayer waits for understanding it will never begin. We discover by using. We learn by practice. Though a man should have all knowledge about prayer, and though he should understand all mysteries about prayer, unless he prays he will 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.

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

Destitute of the fire of God, nothing else counts; possessing fire, nothing else matters.

Prayer is the acid test of devotion.