Jewel Plank’s Reviews > Power Through Prayer > Status Update

A holy life would not be so rare or so difficult a thing if our devotions were not so short and hurried.

Units of prayer combined, like drops of water, make an ocean which defies resistance.

A prayerless Christian will never learn God's truth; a prayerless ministry will never be able to teach God's truth.

Luther held it as an axiom: "He who has prayed well has studied well."

"You know the value of prayer: it is precious beyond all price. Never, never neglect it."
- Sir Thomas Buxton

So we come to one of the crying evils of these times, maybe of all times--little or no praying. Of these two evils, perhaps little praying is worse than no praying. Little praying is a kind of make-believe, a salvo for the conscience, a farce and a delusion.

"The letter-preaching is unctionless, neither mellowed nor oiled by the Spirit. There may be tears, but tears cannot run God's machinery; tears may be but summer's breath on a snow-covered iceberg, nothing but surface slush."

Love this analogy.