Prayer is not informing God of something unknown but drawing oneself in the divine life of the Trinity and into the very mission of God in this world — this God loves us and invites us into his presence with our petitions.

Prayer was and is both a spontaneous act and a recitative

I believe that the broad sweep of the way in which prayer works in the Bible — and I'm thinking here of Jonah and the repentance of Nineveh — teaches us that God, in his sovereignty, has established a kind of contingency in the universe, and that God genuinely interacts with humans who pray in such a way that the universe changes as a result of our prayers.

If we do not fill our mind with prayer, it will fill itself with anxieties, worries, temptations, resentments, and unwelcome memories.

I am too busy. I have not time for worry.

The American people are both anxious for change. We're in a time of flux.

There was no time anymore to be quiet or still or pray. So, in many ways, that's what led to my downward spin.

Worry is really just a form of atheism. Every time you worry, you're acting like an atheist. You're saying, "It all depends on me." That's just not in the Bible.

Even Jesus, the Savior of the world, had to take time each day to ask for his portion.

The time we spend in having our daily audience with God is the most precious part of the whole day.

For business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.

If I be not in a state of Grace, I pray God place me in it; if I be in it, I pray God keep me so.