Pray often; for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan

When you pray, rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart.

It is a common temptation of Satan to make us give up the reading of the Word and prayer when our enjoyment is gone; as if it were of no use to read the Scriptures when we do not enjoy them, and as if it were no use to pray when we have no spirit of prayer.

Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.

Prayer finds its source in God's holiness and it is at the same time our response to this holiness.

Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God.