Chapter 1 - With All They Getting, Get Unction
"The ugly fact is that altar fires are either out or burning very low. the prayer meeting is dead or dying. By our attitude to prayer we tell God that what was begun in the Spirit we can finish in the flesh. What church ever asks its candidating ministers what time they spend in prayer? Yet ministers who do not spend two hours a day in prayer are not worth a dime a dozen, degrees or no degrees." - pg. 21
"But who now 'earnestly contends for the faith once delivered to the saints'? Where are our unctionized pulpit crusaders? Preachers who should be fishing for men are now too often fishing for compliments from men. Preachers used to sow seed; now they string intellectual pearls." - pg. 22
Chapter 2 - Prayer Grasps Eternity
"No man is greater than his prayer life. The pastor who is not prayer is playing; the people who are not praying are straying. The pulpit can be a shopwindow to display one's talents, the prayer closet allows no showing off." - pg. 25
"Poverty-stricken as the Church is today in many things, she is most stricken here, in the place of prayer. We have many organizers, but few agonizers; many players and payers, few pray-ers; many singers, few clingers; lots of pastors, few wrestlers; many fears, few tears; much fashion, little passion; many interferers, few intercessors; many writers, but few fighters. Failing here, we fail everywhere." - pg. 25
"The ministry of preaching is open to few; the ministry of prayer - the holiest ministry of all human offices - is open to all." - pg. 25
"This world hits the trail for hell with a speed that makes our fastest plane look like a tortoise; yet alas, few of us can remember the last time we missed our bed for a night of waiting upon God for a world-shaking revival. Our compassions are not moved. We mistake the scaffolding for the building. Present-day preaching, with its pale interpretation of divine truths, causes us to mistake action for unction, commotion for creation, and rattles for revivals." - pg. 26
"The secret of praying is praying in secret. A sinning man will stop praying, and a praying man will stop sinning. We are beggared and bankrupt, but not broken, nor even bent." - pg. 26
"Can any deny that in the modern church setup the main cause of anxiety is money? Yet that which tries the modern churches the most, troubled the New Testament Church the least. Our accent is on paying, theirs was on praying. when we have paid, the place is taken; when they had prayed, the place was shaken!" - pg. 26
"In the matter of New Testament, Spirit-inspired, hell-shaking, world-breaking prayer, never has so much been left by so many to so few. For this kind of prayer there is no substitute. We do it - or die!" - pg. 26
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