The mystery of seeking God is that HE is the One who finds you.

Nay in many cases open denials of prayer prove the most excellent answers and Gods not hearing us is the most signal audience. Therefore at the foot of every prayer subscribe thy will be done and thou shalt enjoy preventing mercies that thou never soughtest and converting mercies to change all for the best resting confident in this that having asked according to his will he heareth thee.

The padres set great store by addressing prayer to personal gods Genuine prayer exists only in religions in which there is a God as a person and a shape and endowed with a will.That was stated by a famous Protestant. The anarch does not want to have anything to do with that conception. As for the One God while he may be able to shape persons he is not a person himself and the he is already a patriarchal prejudice.A neuter One is beyond our grasp while man converses ten with the Many Gods on equal terms whether as their inventor or as their discoverer. In any case it is man who named the gods. This is not to be confused with a high level soliloquy. Divinity must without a doubt be inside us and recognized as being inside us otherwise we would have no concept of gods.

Kindness is my prayer. Humanity is my abode.

Reading is a beautiful prayer for knowledge.

Temples and churches have become social centers. They have lost their original purpose because the minds of the people are more attracted to worldly things than to prayer. The lips repeat the prayer mechanically like a phonograph record but the mind wanders to other places. 23-24

We could all use the power of prayer now and then but it seems to me that the people who are sure they have a direct line to heaven are most often calling collect with bad news.

As it is the sister of reading so it is the mother of prayer. Though a mans heart be much indisposed to prayer yet if he can but fall into a meditation of God and the things of God his heart will soon come off to prayer....Begin with reading or hearing. Go on with meditation end in prayer....Reading without meditation is unfruitful meditation without reading is hurtful to meditate and to read without prayer upon both is without blessing.

It came at last.Dr. Graham tell me she asked tremulously do you believe that prayers - wicked unreasonable prayers - are grantedHe helped himself to another slice of bread-and-butter before answering. Well- he said slowly it seems hard to believe that every fool who has a voice to pray with and a brain to conceive idiotic requests should be permitted to interfere with the economy of the universe. As a rule if people were long-sighted enough to foresee the result of their petitions I fancy very few of us would venture to interfere. The Story of A Ghost

Prayer not only teaches and strengthens one for work work teaches and strengthens one for prayer.