Fervency in Prayer

We must get rid of the icicles that hang about our lips. We must ask the Lord to thaw
the ice-caves of our soul and to make our hearts like a furnace of fire heated seven
times hotter. If our hearts do not burn within us we may well question whether Jesus
is with us. Those who are neither cold nor hot he has threatened to spew out of his
mouth: how can we expect his favour if we fall into a condition so obnoxious to him?


He who prays without fervency does not pray at all. We cannot commune with God,
who is a consuming fire, if there is no fire in our prayers. Many prayers fail of their
errand because there is no faith in them. Prayers which are filled with doubt, are
requests for refusal.