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.

Prayer and helplessness are inseparable. Only he who is helpless can truly pray. Your helplessness is your best. prayer.

Only he who is helpless can truly pray.

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.

We need to learn to know Him so well that we feel safe when we have left our difficulties with Him. To know in that way is a prerequisite of all true prayer.

Helplessness is the real secret and the impelling power of prayer.

The secret prayer chamber is a bloody battleground. Here violent and decisive battles are fought out. Here the fate of souls for time and eternity is determined, in quietude and solitude.

Prayer is a condition of mind, an attitude of heart, which God recognizes as prayer whether it manifests itself in quiet thinking, in sighing or in audible words.

Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusions.

Human nature being what it was, the only time you could really be sure you weren’t being lied to was when you were talking to yourself.

Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Women are attracted to bad boys not because they want to fall in love… we just want to ride on the backs of their motor bikes.

You fall off the horse and you get back on.

My greatest point is my persistence... However down I am, I fight until the last ball.

My most useful acting tip came from my pal John Wayne. Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much.

In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace; but the first wonder is the offspring of ignorance, the last is the parent of adoration.

I don't write toward a genre, and I try not to make claim to a genre after a book is published. That said, The Guardians isn't poetry. It's prose.

As an actor, the minute you start getting real in interviews, you lose mystery.