“Let’s face it – prayers without desperation are pretend prayers.”

“Prayer, desperate prayer, seems so simple, but it’s a step rarely taken by those in family conflict.”

“Prayer without study would be empty. Study without prayer would be blind.”

“America was founded on prayer. Therefore, the removal of prayer from its public life was a central part of its fall from God. A nation that turns away from prayer will ultimately find itself in desperate need of it.”

“As it is the sister of reading, so it is the mother of prayer. Though a man's heart be much indisposed to prayer, yet, if he can but fall into a meditation of God, and the things of God, his heart will soon come off to prayer....Begin with reading or hearing. Go on with meditation; end in prayer....Reading without meditation is unfruitful; meditation without reading is hurtful; to meditate and to read without prayer upon both, is without blessing.”

“A nation that turns away from prayer will ultimately find itself in desperate need of it.”