If God does not give you something you ask for, wait on Him. He will speak with you tenderly and sympathetically about the matter until you yourself understand that He cannot grant 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.

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.

Helplessness is the real secret and the impelling power of prayer.

The secret prayer chamber is a bloody battleground. Here violent and decisive battles are fought out. Here the fate of souls for time and eternity is determined, in quietude and solitude.

Submit to the Father of spirit, God.

This pure little drop from a pure little source was too sweet: it penetrated deep, and subdued the heart

I won't ever ask if you don't ever tell me.I know you well enough to know you never loved me

Danger can never by overcome without taking risks.

I am against making golf courses obsolete, going to the national Open and playing half the holes with a one-iron.

I don't really feel part of any particular movement.

I feel sexy when I'm taking care of myself and not depriving myself.

Comedy distances pain, but leaves signs of it everywhere.

Comedy is to force us to observe ourselves in ways that are humorous and yet, at the end of the day, that cause us enough discomfort with the status quo to make a change.

I think it is an important question of our lives - what is the meaning of literature to us as humans.