God formed an alliance based on the world as it is, full of flaws, whereas prayer calls God to account for the world as it should be.

Prayer is not a means of removing the unknown and predictable elements in life, but rather a way of including the unknown and unpredictable in the outworking of the grace of God in our lives.

We cannot simply pray and then wait for God to do the rest.

Prayer means keeping company with God who is already present.

The money you are looking for is not in any country, phd or your designer outlook, it is in wisdom. Solomon never prayed for wealth but he asked for wisdom.

People are always ashamed of the misery that has befallen them, as though it were an act of divine retribution for a long-forgotten sin of theirs

Secrets in manufactures are capable of being longer kept than secrets in trade.

We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and'.

I prefer my music. I'm more of a one-nighter kind of person than to do a squat-down job for three months or whatever.

Phooey, I say, on all white-shoe college boys who edit their campus literary magazines. Give me an honest con man any day.

That's what our training is for, we practice not panicking, we practice breathing, we practice looking directly at the thing that scares us until we stop flinching, we practice overriding our Can't.

I don't mind not being cool; I wear a cardigan.

All societies establish laws that become norms. Those norms create the environment that incubates society. So, when you implement the laws of God in society, they produce a culture of heaven.

Done to death by slanderous tongue