Prayer is the greatest of all forces, because it honors God and brings him into active aid.
Crucified preaching only can give life. Crucified preaching can come only from a crucified man.
Bread for today is bread enough.
Only God can move mountains, but faith and prayer can move God.
Prayer succeeds when all else fails.
It is true that Bible prayers in word and print are short, but the praying men of the Bible were with God through many a sweet and holy wrestling hour. They won by few words but long waiting.
Heavenly citizenship and heavenly homesickness are in prayer. Prayer is an appeal from the lowness, from the emptiness, from the need of earth, to the highness, the fullness and to the all-sufficiency of heaven.
The lazy man does not, will not, cannot pray, for prayer demands energy.
God shapes the world by prayer. The prayers of God’s saints are the capitol stock of heaven by which God carries on His great work upon the earth.
Our praying, however, needs to be pressed and pursued with an energy that never tires, a persistency which will not be denied, and a courage which never fails.
Pray for ‘all men.’ We usually pray more for things than we do for men. Our prayers should be thrown across their pathway as they rush in their downward course to a lost eternity.
The pride of learning is against the dependent humility of prayer.
Prayer and a holy life are one. They mutually act and react. Neither can survive alone. The absence of the one is the absence of the other.
To give prayer the secondary place is to make God seconday in life’s affairs.
No man can do a great and enduring work for God who is not a man of prayer, and no man can be a man of prayer who does not give much time to praying.
Prayer makes a godly man, and puts within him “the mind of Christ,” the mind of humility, of self-surrender, of service, of pity, and of prayer. If we really pray, we will become more like God, or else we will quit praying.
The men who have done the most for God in this world have been early on their knees.
You will find out that in the measure you have allowed yourself to look back you have missed that which God has for you.
Prayer is God’s plan to supply man’s great and continuous need with God’s great and continuous abundance.
He only can truly pray who is all aglow for holiness, for God, and for heaven.