“No doubt by praying we learn to pray, and the more we pray the oftener we can pray, and the better we can pray…Great power in prayer is within our reach, but we must go to work to obtain it. Let us never imagine that Abraham could have interceded so successfully for Sodom if he had not been all his lifetime in the practice of communion with God….Oh, that Christians would remember this! Perseverance in prayer is necessary for prevalence in prayer…We must pray to pray, and continue in prayer that our prayers may continue.”

–C.H. Spurgeon in Streams in the Desert, December 16