“In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart. ”

“When you pray, rather let your heart be without words then your words without heart. ”

“Conversion is not the smooth, easy-going process some men seem to think... It is wounding work, this breaking of the hearts, but without wounding there is no saving... Where there is grafting there will always be a cutting, the graft must be let in with a wound; to stick it onto the outside or to tie it on with a string would be of no use. Heart must be set to heart and back to back or there will be no sap from root to branch. And this, I say, must be done by a wound, by a cut.”

“In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.”

“This hill, though high, I covet to ascend; The difficulty will not me offend. For I perceive the way to life lies here. Come, pluck up, heart; let's neither faint nor fear. Better, though difficult, the right way to go, Than wrong, though easy, where the end is woe.”

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

“Now, Mr. Great-heart was a strong man, so he was not afraid of a lion.”