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Prayer is a privilege, and prayer is a power. But the right of prayer has its essential limitations; and he who asks for that which he has no right to ask, or who asks unqualifiedly for that which he ought to leave it with God to bestow or to withhold, fails to bring his prayer within the scope of these essential limitations; and there is no promise of an answer to his prayer. God's promises of answer to prayer never fail of their fulfilling; but man's hope of answers to his prayer beyond the promises of God are always liable to disappointment.

H. Clay Trumbull — H. Clay Trumbull, Prayer: Its Nature and Scope (New York, Chicago, Toronto: Fleming H. Revell Company, copyright 1896), ch. V, "Limitations of the Right of Prayer," p. 42

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H. Clay Trumbull, Prayer: Its Nature and Scope (New York, Chicago, Toronto: Fleming H. Revell Company, copyright 1896), ch. V, "Limitations of the Right of Prayer," p. 42
H. Clay Trumbull, H. Clay Trumbull, Prayer: Its Nature and Scope (New York, Chicago, Toronto: Fleming H. Revell Company, copyright 1896), ch. V, "Limitations of the Right of Prayer," p. 42 (archive.org) - H. Clay Trumbull, Prayer: Its Nature and Scope (New York, Chicago, Toronto: Fleming H. Revell Company, copyright 1896), ch. V, "Limitations of the Right of Prayer," p. 42
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