Groanings which cannot be uttered are often prayers which cannot be refused.

If God be near a church, it must pray. And if he be not there, one of the first tokens of his absence will be a slothfulness in prayer.

I have now concentrated all my prayers into one, and that one prayer is this, that I may die to self, and live wholly to Him.

If in prayer I come before a throne of grace, the faults of my prayer will be overlooked.

Rest time is the waste time. It is economy to gather fresh strength.

A child's cry touches a father's heart, and our King is the Father of his people. If we can do no more than cry it will bring omnipotence to our aid. A cry is the native language of a spiritually needy soul; it has done with fine phrases and long orations, and it takes to sobs and moans; and so, indeed, it grasps the most potent of all weapons, for heaven always yields to such artillery.