The prayer of the saints is never self-important, but always God-important.

Our understanding of God is the answer to prayer; getting things from God is God's indulgence of us. When God stops giving us things, He brings us into the place where we can begin to understand Him.

Some prayers are followed by silence because they are wrong, others because they are bigger than we can understand.

The battle of prayer is against two things in the earthlies: wandering thoughts and lack of intimacy with God's character as revealed in His word. Neither can be cured at once, but they can be cured by discipline.

God answers prayer on the ground of Redemption and on no other ground.

The real business of your life as a saved soul is intercessory prayer.

Prayer is not getting things from God. That is a most initial stage; prayer is getting into perfect communion with God: I tell Him what I know He knows in order that I may get to know it as He does.

Our true character comes out in the way we pray.

When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality.