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.

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.

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.

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

The Church today is more likely to alienate than to seduce...

I want to tell you that I love you, ” he said. “But I’m afraid you won’t remember it tomorrow.”“There’s no way I would forget that.

Wit is well-bred insolence.

Yesterday people were going past my window in t shirts and dresses. But that's the men at the BBC for you.

Heaven is within us, and we experience it to the degree that we become conscious of it.

Stroll into work at 10. Lunch from 12 till three. Leave work at five. That's living!

Freedoms, like privileges, prevail or are imperiled together You cannot harm or strive to achieve one without harming or furthering all.

Whoever could properly characterize Goethe's Meister would have actually expressed what is the timely trend in literature. He would be able, as far as literary criticism is concerned, to rest.

Neuroscience has proven that similar areas of the brain are activated both in the person who suffers and in the one who feels empathy. Thus empathic suffering is a true experience of suffering.

It's like a visual connection between the girl I'm shooting and me, a bunch of triggers. A lot of girls I'll just shoot once or twice, but with certain special ones I'll go a bit further.