I've often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming.

Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

The great thing in prayer is to feel that we are putting our supplications into the bosom of omnipotent love.

questions about the future

Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church it is a goodly Christian weapon.

Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness.

No one can believe how powerful prayer is and what it can effect, except those who have learned it by experience. Whenever I have prayed earnestly, I have been heard and have obtained more than I prayed for. God sometimes delays, but He always comes.

I've got so much work to do today, I'd better spend two hours in prayer instead of one.

All teachers of Scripture conclude that the essence of prayer is simply the lifting up of the heart to God. But if this is so, it follows that everything else that doesn't lift up the heart to God is not prayer. Therefore, singing, talking, and whistling without this lifting up of your heart to God are as much like prayer as scarecrows in the garden are like people. The name and appearance might be there, but the essence is missing.

that prudence of yours makes you veer about, determined not to commit yourself to either side, but to pass safely between Scylla and Charybdis; with the result that, finding yourself battered and buffeted by the waves in the midst of the sea, you assert everything you deny and deny everything you assert.

since God is always to be called on, therefore one must always be in trouble.

To be a Christian without praying is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.