The only trouble is that in the spiritual life there are no tricks and no shortcuts. Those who imagine that they can discover spiritual gimmicks and put them to work for themselves usually ignore Gods will and his grace.

Our devotions are not measured by the clock but time is of the essence. The ability to wait and stay and press belongs essentially to our intercourse with God.

Prayer in private results in boldness in public.

True prayer is only another name for the love of God. Its excellence does not consist in the multitude of our words for our Father knoweth what things we have need of before we ask Him. The true prayer is that of the heart and the heart prays only for what it desires. To pray then is to desire -- but to desire what God would have us desire. He who asks what he does not from the bottom of his heart desire is mistaken in thinking that he prays.

Jesus designed the Lords prayer to reveal His desire to give us more fully graciously and suitably the very things we most want but seek elsewhere. He does not want to deny us our desires but helps remove the false objects of our affections so that we will have the greater blessings he longs to lavish on us.

Little did the old man know how much God liked to talk to His children how He longed to listen to them.

Pray when you feel like praying somebody has said. Pray when you dont feel like praying. Pray until you do feel like praying.

Sixteen of the thirty-eight parables of Jesus deal with money. One out of ten verses in the New Testament deals with that subject. Scripture offers about five hundred verses on prayer fewer than five hundred on faith and over two thousand on money. The believers attitude toward money and possessions is determinative.

Our failure to hear His voice when we want to is due to the fact that we do not in general want to hear it that we want it only when we think we need it.

True prayer is done in secret but this does not rule out the fellowship of prayer altogether however clearly we may be aware of its dangers. In the last resort it is immaterial whether we pray in the open street or in the secrecy of our chambers whether briefly or lenghtily in the Litany of the Church or with the sigh of one who knows not what he should pray for. True prayer does not depend either on the individual or the whole body of the faithful but solely upon the knowledge that our Heavenly Father knows our needs.