Triumphant prayer is almost impossible where there is neglect of the study of the Word of God.

We are too busy to pray, and so we are too busy to have power. We have a great deal of activity, but we accomplish little; many services but few conversions; much machinery but few results.

The chief purpose of prayer is that God may be glorified in the answer.

Prayer that is born of meditation upon the Word of God is the prayer that soars upward most easily to God's listening ears.

If loving God with all our heart and soul and might is the greatest commandment, then it follows that not loving Him that way is the greatest sin.

All that God is, and all that God has, are at the disposal of player. Prayer can do anything that God can do, and as God can do anything, prayer is omnipotent.

Those persons who know the deep peace of God, the unfathomable peace that passeth all understanding, are always men and women of much prayer.

Prayer is the key that unlocks all the storehouses of God's. . .grace and power.

Pray for great things, expect great things, work for great things, but above all pray.

Every Christian who does not study, really study, the Bible every day is a fool.

The Spirit, when He prays through us, or helps us to meet the mighty "ougthness" of right praying, trims our praying down to the will of God.

God has a plan for your life and so does the devil. Whose plan will you choose to live out?

Her protestations were drowned out by the sound of Gordon Honeycomb barfing up aftershock into the kitchenette sink.

It might be just some trend that came and went, ' I said. 'But for us, it's our life.

I wish I was this dark genius artist - like Richard Pryor or something.

Don't expect the future to look like the past. Clear away expectations, and let yourself picture a wild, grand new world.

Moral cowardice and intellectual corruption are the natural concomitants of unchallenged privilege.

Either a princess or a pauper can feel generous. Generosity is the quality of the spirit. When you feel generous your life becomes, abundant full of compassion and love.

The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.

You don't need missionaries in Colorado; you got Colorado.

I continually find it necessary to guard against that natural love of wealth and grandeur which prompts us always, when we come to apply our general doctrine to our own case, to claim an exception.