There was nothing wrong, he reminded himself, with healthy fear; only when it escalated into panic did it become a killer.

I pray daily, and I pray in all kinds of places. I mean, I pray in bed, I pray in the Oval Office. I pray a lot. And just different as the spirit moves me. And faith is an integral part of my life.

Each step along the Buddha's path to happiness requires practising mindfulness until it becomes part of your daily life.

Prayer is the center of the Christian life. It is the only necessary thing. It is living with God, here and now.

There are as many ways to pray as there are moments in life.

Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.

Private prayers are the catalyst for public miracles.

However, let us give ourselves to the study of the word, and to prayer; and may the great Teacher make every scriptural truth food to our souls. I desire to grow in knowledge, but I want nothing which bears that name that has not a direct tendency to make sin more hateful, Jesus more precious to my soul; and at the same time to animate me to a diligent use of every appointed means, and an unreserved regard to every branch of duty.

the chief and grand means of edification, without which all other helps will disappoint us, and prove like clouds without water—are the Bible and prayer—the Word of grace and the Throne of grace.

We tend to be preoccupied by our problems when we have a heightened sense of vulnerability and a diminished sense of power. Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.

None of us may ever know the true effects of our prayers this side of death. But we do know this: History belongs to the intercessors.

Sleep is a daily reminder from God that we are not God. Once a day God sends us to bed like patients with a sickness. The sickness is a chronic tendency to think we are in control and that our work is indispensable. To cure us of this disease God turns us into helpless sacks of sand once a day.