I commend to you the importance of praying with faith…. We should cultivate the habit of expecting answers to our prayers.
– J. C. Ryle
I commend to you the importance of earnestness in prayer…. It is desirable that we should be hearty and fervent and warm, and ask as if we were really interested in what we were doing.
I commend to you the importance of making prayer a regular business of life…. Just as you allot time to eating, sleeping, and business, also allot time to prayer.
I commend then to your attention, the importance of reverence and humility in prayer. Let us never forget what we are, and what a solemn thing it is to speak with God. Let us beware of rushing into his presence with carelessness and levity.
The wheels of all machinery for extending the gospel are moved by prayer.
We should cultivate the habit of pleading promises in our prayers.
Time may be short, but time is always long enough for prayer.
Prayer is the surest remedy against the devil and besetting sins.
The name of Jesus is a never-failing passport for our prayers.
Praying and sinning will never live together in the same heart. Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.