It is no use to ask God with factitious earnestness for A when our whole mind is in reality filled with the desire for B. We must lay before Him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.

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

Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.

For most of us the prayer in Gethsemane is the only model. Removing mountains can wait.

For prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted.

A concentrated mind and a sitting body make for better prayer than a kneeling body and a mind half asleep.

I hope I do not offend God by making my Communions in the frame of mind I have been describing. The command, after all, was Take, eat: not Take, understand.

A man who first tried to guess 'what the public wants, ' and then preached that as Christianity because the public wants it, would be a pretty mixture of fool and knave

We had better share our bewilderments. By hiding them from each other we should not hide them from ourselves.

Madness is loving the unsolvable puzzle of your soul and replacing the lost pieces with my own.

My first recognition of age setting in was exactly on my 36th birthday. I have no idea why, on this day of all days, I looked in the mirror and realized my face no longer looked young.

I always liked people who are older. Of course, every year it gets harder to find them.

Trousers and the reputation of not being a thief are similar in the following way: There is no particular honor in having them butonce they are lost, everyone thinks they have the right to insult us.

What's said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.

These men are all talk; What is needed is action - action!

There is no harm in being sometimes wrong - especially if one is promptly found out.

If you really want to change the world, you must first understand it adequately, or all you will do is reproduce in larger numbers your own ignorance.

Red hair is my life long sorrow.

The funny thing is, I was never much of a fighter. Better a live coward than a dead hero, that was my motto.