E. M. Bounds on Prayer

Praying apostles make preaching apostles.  Prayer gives edge, entrance, and weight to the Word.  Sermons conceived by prayer and saturated with prayer are weighty sermons.  Sermons may be ponderous with thought, sparkle with gems of genius and of taste, pleasing and popular, but unless they have their birth and life in prayer, for God’s uses, they are trifles, dull and dead.  ~E. M Bounds, The Reality of Prayer, 293