If any prayer be a duty, then secret prayer must be superlatively so, for it prepares and fits the soul for all other supplication.
"Continuing instant in prayer." The Greek is a metaphor taken from hunting dogs that never give over the game till they have got their prey.
Private prayer is so far from being a hindrance to a man's business, that it is the way of ways to bring down a blessing from heaven upon it.
God's hearing of our prayers does not depend upon sanctifi- cation, but upon Christ's intercession; not upon what we are in ourselves, but what we are in the Lord Jesus; both our persons and our prayers are accepted in the Beloved.
The best and sweetest flowers of paradise God gives to His people when they are upon their knees. Prayer is the gate of heaven. Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Cold prayers shall never have any warm answers. God will suit His returns to our requests. Lifeless services shall have lifeless answers. When men are dull, God will be dumb. Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)