Prayer is not learned in a classroom but in the closet.
Nine times out of ten, declension from God begins in the neglect of private prayer.
Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.
A man who prays much in private will make short prayers in public.
God sees us in secret, therefore, let, us seek his face in secret. Though heaven be God's palace, yet it is not his prison.
There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.
Surely the experience of all good men confirms the proposition that without a due measure of private devotions the soul will grow lean.
A holy life does not live in the closet, but it cannot live without the closet.
Do not have as your motive the desire to be known as a praying man. Get an inner chamber in which to pray where no one knows you are praying, shut the door, and talk to God in secret.
There is no way that Christians, in a private capacity, can do so much to promote the work of God and advance the kingdom of Christ as by prayer.
I consider myself a religious person. God is something very personal with me and I don't flaunt religion in conversation with others.
[I am] cautious about wearing my religion on my sleeve.
Public prayers are of little worth unless they are founded on or followed up by private praying.
The lasting value of our public service for God is measured by the depth of the intimacy of our private times of fellowship and oneness with Him.
It is far easier to fight with sin in public than to pray against it in private.
No man can hinder our private addresses to God; every man can build a chapel in his breast, himself the priest, his heart the sacrifice, and the earth he treads on, the altar.
I don't wear my faith on my sleeve, but I definitely do walk with it every day in my heart.
The man who follows Christ in solitary mourning is greater than he who praises Christ amid the congregation of men.
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
There is a difference between a private devotional life and a corporate one. Solemnity is proper in church, but things that are proper in church are not necessarily proper outside, and vice versa.
