In order to pray like a child, you might need to unlearn the nonpersonal, nonreal praying that you've been taught.

If you wait, your heavenly Father will pick you up, carry you out into the night, and make your life sparkle. He wants to dazzle you with the wonder of his love.

Self-will and prayer are both ways of getting things done. At the center of self-will is me, carving a world in my image, but at the center of prayer is God, carving me in his Son's image.

Prayer is a moment of incarnation - God with us. God involved in the details of my life.

Prayer mirrors the gospel. In the gospel, the Father takes us as we are and gives us his gift of salvation. In prayer, the Father receives us as we are because of Jesus and gives us his gift of help.

We have an allergic reaction to dependency, but this is the state of the heart most necessary for a praying life. A need heart is a praying heart. Dependency is the heartbeat of prayer.

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

The kingdom comes when Jesus becomes king of your life. But it has to be your life.

True oneness is found in quiet meditation with nature.

Before you reach the point of forgiveness, you go through the phase where you pray... for every possible misfortune and ill luck to strike them dead while you sit and watch.

Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.

I definitely get stage fright.

What this world needs is a few more Rednecks.

A family unity which is only bound together with a table-cloth is of questionable value.

There is absolutely nothing we can ever do that will cause God to forsake us. He will never turn away from us.

Being on stage isn't so tough compared to the football pitch.

Together with the rise of the internet, September 11 and its aftermath has changed most of our lives.

I just don't think [Payne] was the right time to do it, maybe. It was timing, not so much that it was executed wrong.