Status Updates From Prayer: Communing with God ...

lovely, as usual.

"The God-always-answers-prayer sophistry leaves the praying man without discipline. By the exercise of this bit of smooth casuistry he ignores the necessity to live soberly, righteously, and godly in the present world, and actually takes God's flat refusal to answer his prayer as the very answer itself." p. 172

Convicting...

"Prayer is the respiratory function of the church; without it we suffocate and die at last, like a living body deprived of the breadth of life." p.162

"There [in one's own prayer closet] every man must be an original, for true prayer cannot be imitated nor can it be learned from someone else...prayer cannot be taught it can only be done." p.157

Not to say that written prayers, praying scripture or learning prayer practices aren't helpful but I think Tozer has a valid point that because prayer is personal and relational it needs to be ultimately original.