When God will have any great matters done he sets his peoples hearts to work at prayer by a kind of gracious instinct. He stirs them up and moves their hearts by the influence of his Holy Spirit.

Pardon me also and deal mercifully with me as often as I think of anything besides You in prayer. For I confess truly that I am accustomed to be very much distracted. Very often I am not where bodily I stand or sit rather I am where my thoughts carry me. Where my thoughts are there am I and frequently my thoughts are where my love is. That which naturally delights or is by habit pleasing comes to me quickly. Hence You Who are Truth itself have plainly said For where your treasure is there is your heart also. If I love heaven I think willingly of heavenly things. If I love the world I rejoice at the happiness of the world and grieve at its troubles. If I love the flesh I often imagine things that are carnal. If I love the spirit I delight in thinking of spiritual matters. For whatever I love I am willing to speak and hear about.

The person who knows Christ best is the person who will pray best.

He Lincoln recognized the delicate balance between immanence and transcendence refusing to settle for either of these alone. His was a God who was both in the world and above the world.

Modest conventional expectations werent enough to lure Adam Brown away from the power of drug addiction that ensnared him. Instead the college dropout already in his mid-twenties found only the big near-impossible dream of being a Navy SEAL captivating enough to consistently draw him to different choices.

It is a great gift when God gives me a stirring a feeling a something-at-all in prayer. But work is being done whether I feel it or not.

Eventually you will find yourself preferring to say Prayer happened and I was there more than I prayed today. All you know is that you are being led being guided being loved being used being prayed through -- and you are no longer in the drivers seat.

Starting the day - Another chance to be new again.How many of us still wish for thatTo be your own sunrise.To awaken like a prayer - both solemn and joyful at still being alive.

My reality is at the end of the dream. When I walk down the road of life searching for the door that will guide me to my reality I am merely walking to confirm there is nothing there.

Prayer is actually setting out a tuning fork. All you can really do in the spiritual life is to get tuned to receive the always present message. Once you are tuned you will receive and it as nothing do to with worthiness or the group you belong to but only the inner resonance and a capacity for mutuality. The Sender is absolutely and always present and broadcasting the only change is with the receiver station.