Be sure to remember that nothing in your daily life is so insignificant and so inconsequential that the Lord will not help you by answering your prayer.

Prayer and helplessness are inseparable. Only he who is helpless can truly pray. Your helplessness is your best. prayer.

To pray is nothing more involved than to open the door, giving Jesus access to our needs and permitting Him to exercise His own power in dealing with them.

Only he who is helpless can truly pray.

Prayer is the conduit through which power from heaven is brought to earth.

Helplessness is your best prayer. It calls from your heart to the heart of God with greater effect than all your uttered pleas.

The more helpless you are, the better you are fitted to pray, and the more answers to prayer you will experience.

My praying friend, continue to make known your desires to God in all things. ... Let Him decide whether you are to receive what you ask for or not.

Prayer is something deeper than words. It is present in the soul before it has been formulated in words. And it abides in the soul after the last words of prayer have passed over our lips.

It is only when we pray for something according to the will of God that we have the promise of being heard and answered.

We need to learn to know Him so well that we feel safe when we have left our difficulties with Him. To know in that way is a prerequisite of all true prayer.

[S]omething had to change. Because I had changed.

Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie-I found that out.

Thinking about the fathomless cruelty with which man has treated his fellow man, but also ice cream.

Playing 'Tetris' for 15 minutes is like meditation.

Everything passes. There is great beauty in this, both in the passing of pain and in the passing of pleasure. When things present themselves to you as permanent, don't believe it.

Violence is an expression of impotence.

There in the midst of the Amazon Jungle, Simon Haskell has cobbled up for himself a replica of an Art Deco salon.

From John Huston to Fred Zinnemann and Richard Fleischer and all those great American directors.

I actually was the accompanist for a couple of the musicals I was in growing up.

In other words, Social Security is every bit as insecure as the stock market.