Proverbs on Prayer

The prayer of the upright is his delight.  Proverbs 15:8

"This is as good as a promise, for it declares a present fact, which will be the same throughout all ages. God takes great pleasure in the prayers of upright men; He even calls them His delight.

Our first concern is to be upright. Neither bending this way nor that,

continue upright; ... If we begin to shuffle and shift, we shall be left to shift for ourselves. ....we shall find our prayers shut out of heaven.

---If our prayer is God's delight, let us not stint Him in that which gives Him pleasure. 

---He does not consider the grammar of it, nor the metaphysics of it, nor the rhetoric of it; in all these men might despise it. He, as a Father, takes pleasure in the lispings of His own babes, the stammerings of His newborn sons and daughters. Should we not delight in prayer since the Lord delights in it?." Charles Spurgeon