"Prayer does not enable us to do a greater work for God. Prayer is a greater work for God."

"Christ was in agony in prayer, Luke 22:44. Many when they pray are rather in lethargy, than in an agony. When they are about the world they are all fire; when they are at prayer, they are all ice."

"Our Lord is the ground from whom our prayer grows and in his love and grace he himself gives us our prayers."

"He prayed for his enemies, and you do not even pray for your friends."

"Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must first be overcome."

"Commitment without reflection is fanaticism in action, though reflection without commitment is the paralysis of all action."

"The door of God is humility. Our fathers, through the many insults which they suffered, entered the city of God."

"We evalutate others with a godlike justice, but we want them to evaluate us with a godlike compassion."

"We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves."

"Do not be angry that you cannot make others as you would wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be."

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."

"He said not: |"Thou shalt not be tempted: |Thou shalt not be travailed:|Thou shalt not be afflicted."|But he said:|"Thou shalt not be overcome."

"Some hypocrites who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address."

"Unwillingness to accept God's "way of escape" from temptation frightens me - what a rebel yet resides within."

"God's retirement plan is out of this world."

"A continual looking forward to the eternal world is not a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but one of the things a Christian is meant to do."

"The main object of Christianity is not only to get a man into heaven, but also to get heaven into him."

"The perfect church service would be one we were almost unaware of; our attention would have been on God."

"Worship is transcendent wonder."

"We should dedicate ourselves to becoming in this life the most perfect worshippers of God we can possibly be, as we hope to be through all eternity."