The greatest thing anyone can do for God and for man is to pray. You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed. Prayer is striking the winning blow ... service is gathering up the results.

Prayer does not influence God. Prayer surely does influence God. It does not influence His purpose. It does influence His action.

The greatest thing anyone can do for God and man is pray. It is not the only thing but it is the chief thing. The great people of the earth today are the people who pray. I do not mean those who talk about prayer not those who can explain about prayer but I mean those people who take time and pray.

Shoes divide men into three classes. Some men wear their father's shoes. They make no decisions of their own. Some are unthinkingly shod by the crowd. The strong man is his own cobbler. He insists on making his own choices. He walks in his own shoes.

No man's hand has ever yet reached up to take as much as the Pierced Hand is reaching down to give.

The men who seem to know most of God's power have had great, unspeakable longings, at times, for a fresh consciousness of that power.

Prayer wonderfully clears the vision steadies the nerves defines duty stiffens the purpose sweetens and strengthens the spirit.

If there are two persons praying, there are three. If three meet to pray, there are four praying. There is always one more than you can see.

Faith is blind...to impossibilities and deaf to doubt. It listens only to God.

If there be anything that can render the soul calm, dissipate its scruples and dispel its fears, sweeten its sufferings by the anointing of love, impart strength to all its actions, and spread abroad the joy of the Holy Spirit in its countenance and words, it is this simple and childlike repose in the arms of God.

Steadfastness, that is holding on patience, that is holding back expectancy, that is holding the face up obedience, that is holding one's self in readiness to go or do listening, that is holding quiet and still so as to hear.

God's greatest agency man's greatest agency, for defeating the enemy and winning men back is intercession.

Prayer is partnership with God in His planet-sized purposes, and includes the all things beside, as an important detail of the whole.

One should never initiate anything that he cannot saturate with prayer.

The way from God to a human heart is through a human heart.

The real victory in all service is won in secret beforehand by prayer.

You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed.