Perhaps priest and magician were once one, but the priest, learning humility in the face of God, discarded the spell for prayer.

Prayer implies surrender to the will of the giver, demand preconceives a right to receive. Pray, my dear, and you shall receive.

In the tabernacle of grace, all your obstacles will be tackled. Wake up to see it happen live. You are victorious in all things!

Make this poor self grow less and less, Be Thou my life and aim ; Oh, make me daily, through Thy grace, More worthy of Thy name.

He regards it as the highest insult for the wicked to boast of His covenant while profaning His sacred Name by their whole lives.

A man may study because his brain is hungry for knowledge, even Bible knowledge. But he prays because his soul is hungry for God.

We don't know how bad we are until we try to be good. Nothing exposes our selfishness and spiritual pwerlessness like prayer.

If we want to raise children who will remain faithful to Christ and His Church, they need to see fathers on their knees in prayer.

Mental prayer is, as I see it, simply a friendly intercourse and frequent solitary conversation with Him who, as we know, loves us.

Prayer is a many fingeredand kaleidoscopic thing—it foldsand unfolds inside of you. It entersthe many rooms you cannot enter.

He who neglects to pray alone and in private, however assiduously he frequents public meetings, there gives his prayers to the wind.

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance

Let us live this day in that light, that life, and that peace, so that we may gain the victory over those things that press us down.

Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise our persons, but they are helpless against our prayers.

I wanted my sons to know that, whatever kinds of prayers we utter, not matter how wretched, God hears them, even when we pray badly.