You see, the more you can prove that the sinner’s case is hopeless and bad, you have only proved that the sinner has the more reason for prayer. If I am the furthest from hope, why, then, he who wants to be heard and is a very long way off, must call loudly! He that is further still, must call more loudly still! And he that is furthest off must be the loudest of all—so if I am the furthest off from God and hope—I will only pray with the greater importunity till I do prevail. “Yes, but,” said another of them, “you make such a noise. Be still! You disturb the whole neighborhood.” “Ah,” says he, “I am thankful for that, for now He will hear me.”
Charles Spurgeon
The Blind Man’s Earnest Cries