Make sickness itself a prayer.

Though I am weak yet God when prayed Cannot withhold his conquering aid.

Do not pray for easy lives pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers pray for powers equal to your tasks.

It is impossible to lose your footing while on your knees.

My observation of Christendom is that most of us tend to base our relationship with God on our performance instead of on His grace.

When you put it together, it looks like this: Our natural condition is weak and fallen and our temptations are numerous; God is infinitely holy, yet He offers forgiveness, grace and enabling power to those who get honest with Him and are willing to repent.

To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together... humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.

One who has been touched by grace will no longer look on those who stray as "those evil people" or "those poor people who need our help." Nor must we search for signs of "loveworthiness." Grace teaches us that God loves because of who God is, not because of who we are.

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

Embrace being perfectly imperfect. Learn from your mistakes and forgive yourself, you'll be happier.

Savor powerlessness, after power, in every phase that matches it precisely; replace every old triumph with the new defeat; strengthen yourself on your weakness; win yourself back when so very lost.

It is not, however, only the word, it is also the thing, in all its infinite complexity, that he [Kafka] articulates with unrivaled courage and clarity. For, since he fears power in any form, since the real aim of his life is to withdraw from it, in whatever form it may appear, he detects it, identifies it, names it, and creates figures of it in every instance where others would accept it as being nothing out of the ordinary.