Chrysostom on Prayer

Prayer is a haven to the shipwrecked man, an anchor to them that are sinking in the waves, a staff to the limbs that totter, a mine of jewels to the poor, a healer of diseases, and a guardian of health.  Prayer at once secures the continuance of our blessings, and dissipates the clouds of our calamities.  O blessed prayer!  thou art the unwearied conqueror of human woes, the firm foundation of human happiness, the source of ever-enduring joy, the mother of philosophy.  The man who can pray truly, though languishing in the extremest indigence, is richer than all beside, whilst the wretch who never bowed the knee, though proudly sitting as monarch of all nations, is of all men most destitute.--Chrysostom