Bounds on Prayer

So ignorant are we in this matter of prayer, so impotent are all other teachers to impart its lessons to our understanding and heart, that the Holy Spirit comes as the infallible and all-wise teacher to instruct us in this divine art.  To pray with all your heart and all your strength, with the reason and the will, this is the greatest achievement of the Christian warfare on earth. This is what we are taught to do and enabled to do by the Holy Spirit.  If no man can say that Jesus is the Christ but by the Spirit’s help; for the much greater reason can no man pray save by the aid of God’s Spirit.  ~E. M. Bounds, The Reality of Prayer, 288