Are you tired? Worn out? Burned out on religion? Come to me. Get away with me and you'll recover your life. I'll show you how to take a real rest. Walk with me and work with me—watch how I do it. Learn the unforced rhythms of grace. I won't lay anything heavy or ill-fitting on you. Keep company with me and you'll learn to live freely and lightly.

Unlike mere action, prayer is not subject to immediate evaluation or verification. If we are addicted to "results" we will quickly lose interest in prayer.

Give your entire attention to what God is doing right now, and don't get worked up about what may or may not happen tomorrow. God will help you deal with whatever hard things come up when the time comes.

If vocational holiness is to be anything more than a pious wish, pastors must dive to the ocean depths of prayer.

We do not become less needy, less dependent when we pray; we become more needy, more dependent, which is to say, more human.

Prayer is what develops in us after we step out of the center and begin responding to the center, to Jesus.

Prayer is speech at its most alive. The breath that is breathed into us by God we breathe back to God.

Prayer is a way of language practiced in the presence of God in which we become more than ourselves while remaining ourselves.

The practice of prayer, if it is going to amount to anything more than wish lists and complaints, requires a recovery of personal, relational, revelational language in both our listening and our speaking.

Apart from childhood and crisis, prayers have a way of being abstracted from the homely and distinctive details that are part and parcel of our ordinary and daily life.

Don't fret or worry. Instead of worrying, pray. Let petitions and praises shape your worries into prayers, letting God know your concerns. Before you know it, a sense of God's wholeness, everything coming together for good, will come and settle you down. It's wonderful what happens when Christ displaces worry at the center of your life.

I try to remind myself not to go anywhere or do anything without asking for spiritual direction through prayer and meditation.