True prayer is a lonely business.
The Secret of Praying is Praying in Secret. The secret place of prayer calls for every faculty of mind and heart.
The Holy Spirit cannot conquer the world with unbelief, nor can He save the world with a worldly Church. He calls for a crusade, a campaign, and an adventure of saving passion. For this enterprise He wants a separated, sanctified and sacrificial people.
Prayer is the acid test of devotion.
In these days there is no time to pray; but without time, and a lot of it, we shall never learn to pray.
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.
Destitute of the fire of God, nothing else counts; possessing fire, nothing else matters.
There is no way to learn to pray but by praying.
The Church is the Body of Christ begotten, unified, and indwelt by the Spirit, but forgetting the Spirit, men wrangle over limbs, functions, and orders. The Christian religion is hopeless without the Holy Ghost.
If you’re successful, don’t crow. If you’re defeated, don’t croak.
Prayer in secret is life finding expression in the realized Presence of God our Father.
Praying solves the problems of prayer.
When alone with God, be alone with Him.
The great souls who became mighty in prayer and rejoiced to spend three and four hours a day alone with God were once beginners.
The reason so many people do not pray is because of its cost. The cost is not so much in the sweat of agonizing supplication as in the daily fidelity to the life of prayer.
Brethren, the crying sin of the church is her laziness after God.
The Church gives more time, thought, and money to recreation and sport than to prayer.
The Christian religion is hopeless without the Holy Ghost.
To pray as God would have us pray is the greatest achievement of earth.
A gift without a heart behind it is a bribe. God asks for our heart, not our gifts.
The world will never believe in a religion in which there is no power.