“The fewer the words, the better the prayer.”

“I've got so much work to do today, I'd better spend two hours in prayer instead of one.”

“Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness.”

“I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer.”

“The people, especially in the villages, know nothing at all of Christian doctrine; and many pastors are sadly unfit and incompetent to teach. Yet all are called Christians, have been baptized, and enjoy the use of the Sacrament, although they know neither the Lord's Prayer, nor the Creed, nor the Ten Commandments...”

“Sometimes the curses of the godless sound better than the hallelujahs of the pious.”

“No one can believe how powerful prayer is and what it can effect, except those who have learned it by experience. Whenever I have prayed earnestly, I have been heard and have obtained more than I prayed for. God sometimes delays, but He always comes.”