Prayer is the open admission that without Christ we can do nothing. And prayer is the turning away from ourselves to God in the confidence that He will provide the help we need. Prayer humbles us as needy and exalts God as wealthy

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.

I sometimes pray not for self-knowledge in general but for just so much self knowledge at the moment as I can bear and use at the moment the little daily dose.

Let his sword break and his shield shatter Sansa thought coldly as she shoved out through the doors let his courage fail him and every man desert him.

It was a hollow victory they gave me. A crown...it was the girl I prayed them for. Your sister safe... and mine again as she was meant to be. I ask you Ned what good is it to wear a crown

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

Human lives are hard even those of health and privilege and dont make much sense. This is the message of the Book of Job Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit.

What the Church needs to-day is not more machinery or better not new organizations or more and novel methods but men whom the Holy Ghost can use -- men of prayer men mighty in prayer. The Holy Ghost does not flow through methods but through men. He does not come on machinery but on men. He does not anoint plans but men -- men of prayer.

God stays awake all the time. In case we need to talk to Him about something.