Prayer is a trade to be learned. We must be apprentices and serve our time at it. Painstaking care, much thought, practice and labour are required to be a skillful tradesman in praying. Practice in this, as well as in all other trades, makes perfect.
Our praying, to be strong, must be buttressed by holy living. The life of faith perfects the prayer of faith.
Prayer puts God’s work in his hands-and keeps it there.
We must lose all for Christ in order to gain all for Christ.
Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still. He will never talk well and with real success to men for God who has not learned well how to talk to God for men.
Prayer is not learned in a classroom but in the closet.
Trust is faith that has become absolute, approved, and accomplished. When all is said and done, there is a sort of risk in faith and its exercise. But trust is firm belief; it is faith in full bloom. Trust is a conscious act, a fact of which we are aware.
We can never know God as it is our privilege to know Him by brief repetitions that are requests for personal favors, and nothing more.
Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still.
The only limits to prayer are the promises of God and His ability to fulfill those promises.
Prayer is the easiest and hardest of all things; the simplest and the sublimest; the weakest and the most powerful; its results lie outside the range of human possibilities-they are limited only by the omnipotence of God.
Prayer, like faith, obtains promises, enlarges their operation, and adds to the measure of their results.
Prayer is our most formidable weapon, the thing which makes all else we do efficient.
No erudition, no purity of diction, no width of mental outlook, no flowers of eloquence, no grace of person can atone for lack of fire. Prayer ascends by fire. Flame gives prayer access as well as wings, acceptance as well as energy. There is no incense without fire; no prayer without flame.
If we would have God in the closet, God must have us out of the closet. There is no way of praying to God, but by living to God.
That man cannot possibly be called a Christian, who does not pray.
The houses of Heaven are God-built and are as enduring and incorruptible as their builder. We will have bodies after the resurrection; transfigured they will be after the model of Christs glorious body.
Christianity is not rationalism, but faith in Gods revelation. A conspicuous, all-important item in that revelation is the resurrection of the body.
The resurrection of Jesus Christ was necessary to establish the truth of his mission and put the stamp of all-conquering power on his gospel.
Preaching is not the performance of an hour. It is the outflow of a life. It takes twenty years to make a sermon because it takes twenty years to make the man. The true sermon is a thing of life. The sermon grows because the man grows.