Birth: 1860 Death: 1932
It is wonderful what God can do with a broken heart, if He gets all the pieces..
True prayer is a lonely business..
There is no way of learning to pray but by praying. No reasoned philosophy of prayer ever taught a soul to pray. We know not what we should pray for ….
Prayer turns ordinary mortals into men of power. It brings power. It brings fire. It brings rain. It brings life. It brings God..
Satan dreads nothing but prayer. . . . The Church that lost its Christ was full of good works. Activities are multiplied that meditation may be ouste….
The one concern of the devil is to keep Christians from praying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work, and prayer-less religion.….
The root-trouble of the present distress is that the Church has more faith in the world and the flesh than in the Holy Ghost..
The Holy Ghost does not come upon methods, but upon men. He does not anoint machinery, but men. He does not work through organizations, but through m….
The Secret of Praying is Praying in Secret. The secret place of prayer calls for every faculty of mind and heart..
The Church is the Body of Christ, and the Spirit is the Spirit of Christ. He fills the Body, directs its movements, controls its members, inspires it….
A gift without a heart behind it is a bribe. God asks for our heart, not our gifts..
Confusion and impotence are the inevitable results when the wisdom and resources of the world are substituted for the presence and power of the Spiri….
Spirit filled souls are ablaze for God. They love with a love that glows. They serve with a faith that kindles. They serve with a devotion that consu….
Great grief prays with great earnestness. Prayer is not a collection of balanced phrases; it is the pouring out of the soul. What is love if it be no….
Men ablaze are invincible. Hell trembles when men kindle. The stronghold of Satan is proof against everything but fire. The Church is powerless witho….
Nothing would turn the nation back to God so surely and so quickly as a Church that prayed and prevailed. The world will never believe in a religion ….
It takes us long to learn that prayer is more important than organization, more powerful than armies, more influential than wealth and mightier than ….
Satan laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray..
I owe everything to the gift of Pentecost. For fifty days the facts of the Gospel were complete, but no conversions were recorded. Pentecost register….
A season of silence is the best preparation for speech with God..
Prayer in secret is life finding expression in the realized Presence of God our Father..