Sometimes we think we are too busy to pray. That also is a great mistake, for praying is a saving of time.
The best praying man is the man who is most believingly familiar with the promises of God. After all, prayer is nothing but taking God’s promises to him, and saying to him, “Do as thou hast said.” Prayer is the promise utilized. A prayer which is not based on a promise has no true foundation.
Not to pray because you do not feel fit to pray is like saying, “I will not take medicine because I am too ill.” Pray for prayer: pray yourself, by the Spirit’s assistance, into a praying frame.
There has never been an instance yet of a man really seeking spiritual blessings of God without his receiving them.
A mother can translate baby-talk: she comprehends incomprehensible noises. Even so doth our Father in heaven know all about our poor baby talk, for our prayer is not much better.
I believe that no man loves prayer until the Holy Spirit has taught him the sweetness and value of it.
I never expect, until I get to heaven, to be able to cease confessing sin every day and every time I stand before God.
You need always to pray, for you always want something. In no condition are you so rich as not to need something from your God.
When prayer is a mechanical act, and there is no soul in it, it is a slavery and a weariness; but when it is really living prayer, and when the man prays because he is a Christian and cannot help praying, when he prays along the street, prays in his business, prays in the house, prays in the field, when his whole soul is full of prayer, then he cannot have too much of it.
That prayer which came from heaven will certainly go back to heaven. If the Holy Ghost prompts it, the Father must and will accept it, for it is not possible that he should put a slight upon the ever blessed and adorable Spirit.
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