November 12

“We need to ‘watch unto prayer.’ Watching unto prayer implies that we are storing up matter for our prayers; so watching our steps and words, and thoughts, so taking account of our hours as they pass, so marking the defects and failures of our common life, as to know what to pray about, and what to pray for, and what to pray against, when the time comes.”

J. HAMPDEN GURNEY

“Is it not true that most people fail much in prayer, because they will not take the trouble to prepare for prayer? With a written list of the subjects we select for our prayers, a few collects or prayers from books of devotion carefully selected and marked, and a fixed time allotted to our prayers, we shall find we can do much better than we generally do now.”

Bishop WALSHAM HOW