The prayers of God’s saints strengthen the unborn generation against the desolating waves of sin and evil.
That man is the most immortal who has done the most and the best praying. They are God heroes, God’s saints, God’s servants, God’s vicegerents.
Prayer is no fitful, short-lived thing. It is no voice crying unheard and unheeded in the silence. It is a voice which goes into God’s ear, and it lives as long as God’s ear is open to holy pleas, as long as God’s heart is alive to holy things.
When trust is perfect and there is no doubt, prayer is simply the outstretched hand ready to receive.
Public prayers are of little worth unless they are founded on or followed up by private praying.
Little praying is a kind of make believe, a salve for the conscience, a farce and a delusion.
God’s cause is committed to men; God commits Himself to men. Praying men are the vice-regents of God; they do His work and carry out His plans.
The conditions of praying are the conditions of righteousness, holiness, and salvation.
Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element in prayer.
He who would pray, must obey.
The little estimate we put on prayer is evidence from the little time we give to it.
It is necessary to iterate and reiterate that prayer, as a mere habit, as a performance gone through by routine or in a professional way, is a dead and rotten thing.
We can never expect to grow in the likeness of our Lord unless we follow His example and give more time to communion with the Father. A revival of real praying would produce a spiritual revolution.
We can do nothing without prayer.
A life growing in its purity and devotion will be a more prayerful life.
Prayer is the language of a man burdened with a sense of need.
God’s Word does not say, “Call unto me, and you will thereby be trained into the happy art of knowing how to be denied. Ask, and you will learn sweet patience by getting nothing.” Far from it. But it is definite, clear and positive: “Ask, and it shall be given unto you.”
A man can pray better because of the prayers of the past; a man can live holier because of the prayers of the past; the man of many and acceptable prayers has done the truest and greatest service to the incoming generation.
God shapes the world by prayer. The more prayer there is in the world the better the world will be, the mightier the forces of against evil.
Praying which does not result in pure conduct is a delusion. We have missed the whole office and virtue of praying if it does not rectify conduct. It is in the very nature of things that we must quit praying, or quit bad conduct.