JC Ryle and Prayer

"If I know anything of a Christian's heart, you are often sick of your own prayers."

"Words said without heart are as utterly useless to our souls as the drumbeat of the poor heathen before their idols. Where there is no heart, there may be lip-work and tongue-work, but there is nothing that God listens to; there is no prayer."

"Praying and sinning never live together in the same heart. Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer."

God, make us like Christ.