Good prayers never come creeping home. I am sure I shall receive what I ask for or what I should ask.
For spiritual blessings, let our prayers be importunate, perpetual, and persevering; for temporal blessings, let them be general, short, conditional, and modest.
The prayer that begins with trustfulness, and passes on into waiting, even while in sorrow and sore need, will always end in thankfulness and triumph and praise.
Be not afraid to pray—to pray is right.
Pray if thou canst with hope; but ever pray,
Though hope be weak or sick with long delay;
Pray in the darkness, if there be no light.
Ah, what is it we send up thither, where our thoughts are either a dissonance or a sweetness and a grace?
Patience and perseverance are never more thoroughly Christian graces than when features of prayer.
Are we to suppose that the only being in the universe who cannot answer prayer is that One who alone has all power at His command? The weak theology that professes to believe that prayer has merely a subjective benefit is infinitely less scientific than the action of the child who confidently appeals to a Father in heaven.
