The more helpless you are the better you are fitted to pray and the more answers to prayer you will experience.

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.

Be sure to remember that nothing in your daily life is so insignificant and so inconsequential that the Lord will not help you by answering your prayer.

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.

Prayer is something deeper than words. It is present in the soul before it has been formulated in words. And it abides in the soul after the last words of prayer have passed over our lips.

It is only when we pray for something according to the will of God that we have the promise of being heard and answered.

If I were hungry and friendless today, I would rather take my chances with a saloon-keeper than with the average preacher.

Supposedly I haven't changed.

Endings must come naturally, you're supposed to let it happen, not just to make it happen like that.

The Chavez-Obama pictures will join a postmodern photo array that includes Donald Rumsfeld gifting Saddam Hussein with spurs from President Reagan.

I'm not psychic. I cannot know what is in the mind of particular public figures.

There is no readier way for a man to bring his own worth into question than by endeavoring to detract from the worth of other men.

When you get to be 95, travel doesn't come as easily.

Saying you want to escape is the easy part; actually figuring out how to do it is not quite so simple.

I'm an outside chance at Roland Garros but my focus is really on Wimbledon where it is realistically between me and Roger Federer to win.

History is in a manner a sacred thing, so far as it contains truth; for where truth is, the supreme Father of it may also be said to be, at least, inasmuch as concerns truth.