All about us, in earth and air, wherever the eye or ear can reach, there is a power ever breathing itself forth in signs, now in daisy, now in a wind-waft, a cloud, a sunset; a power that holds constant and sweetest relation with the dark and silent world within us. The same God who is in us, and upon whose tree we are the buds, if not yet the flowers, also is all about us- inside, the Spirit; outside, the Word. And the two are ever trying to meet in us.
R. A. Torrey
The devil is perfectly willing that the Church should multiply its organization and its deftly contrived machinery for the conquest of the world for Christ, if it will only give up praying. . . Satan laughs softly, as he looks at the Church today, and says under his breath: "You can have your Sunday schools, your YMCAs. . . your grand choirs, and your fine organs, and your brilliant preachers. . . as long as you do not bring into them the power of Almighty God, sought and obtained by earnest, persistent, believing, mighty prayers. "
