The pride of learning is against the dependent humility of prayer.

Four things let us ever keep in mind: God hears prayer, God heeds prayer, God answers prayer, and God delivers by prayer.

All God's plans have the mark of the cross on them, and all His plans have death to self in them.

He who is too busy to pray will be too busy to live a holy life. Satan had rather we let the grass grow on the path to our prayer chamber than anything else.

It is necessary to iterate and reiterate that prayer, as a mere habit, as a performance gone through by routine or in a professional way, is a dead and rotten thing.

Prayer honors God, acknowledges His being, exalts His power, adores His providence, secures His aid.

Prayer succeeds when all else fails

If God is not first in our thoughts and efforts in the morning, He will be in the last place the remainder of the day.

God shapes the world by prayer. The more prayer there is in the world the better the world will be, the mightier the forces of against evil

Prayer is not learned in a classroom but in the closet.

We regard prayer no longer as a duty which must be performed, but rather as a privilege which is to be enjoyed, a rare delight that is always revealing some new beauty.

We are all proud that through God's powerful aid, we have become once more true Germans

I'm not much for sitting around and thinking about the past or talking about the past. What does that accomplish?

It is curious how sometimes the memory of death lives on for so much longer than the memory of the life that is purloined.

The U.S. states that allow for citizens' initiatives tend to have fewer laws and lower taxes than the ones that don't. But the beauty of the system is that it encourages the spread of best practice.

When you are up close to an opera singer, hearing this incredible volume of noise coming from a human being - its beyond belief.

That's who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of.

You don't have to be in the habit of going to church to listen to such a literary minister; you don't have to be a believer to be moved by Mr. Buechner's faith.

love is just a history that they may prove and when your gone ill tell them my religion is you

I'll also tell you that to no less extent my mom, who was the daughter of Irish immigrants.

Depression manifests itself in a lack of will.