Our silence might be better than our voices if our solitude was spent with God.

If I can bring Him nothing but my tears, He will put them with His own tears in His own bottle for He once wept; if I can bring Christ nothing but my groans and sighs, He will accept these as an acceptable sacrifice, for He once was broken in heart, and sighed heavily in spirit.

If we cannot prevail with men for God, we will at least endeavor to prevail with God for men.

The author says the pastor who does not pray is a "mere official" who gets into his office by the necessity of the bread it provides.