To neglect ones own ability to laugh is the greatest form of Blasphemy for to laugh is to pray.

A prayerless age will have but scant models of divine power. The age may be a better age than the past but there is an infinite distance between the betterment of an age by the force of an advancing civilization and its betterment by the increase of holiness and Christlikeness by the energy of prayer.

When I listen to you Godwhen I do what you ask me toI am like a treeplanted by a rivera tree full of fruitwith leaves that are always green. Ps 1paraphrased

Theres a traditional Kenyan prayer From the cowardice that dares not deal with new truth from the laziness that is content with half-truth from the arrogance that thinks it knows all truth Good Lord deliver me.

Ill pray for you.Thats very kind of you.I cant spare you a whole rosary you know. Just a decade. Ive got such a long list of people. I take them in order and they get a decade about once a week.

I had no tears to shed nor a prayer for the deceased... There is no hope for the hopeless.

Prayer in private results in boldness in public.

People said there had to be a Supreme Being because otherwise how could the universe exist ehAnd of course there clearly had to be said Koomi a Supreme Being. But since the universe was a bit of a mess it was obvious that the Supreme Being hadnt in fact made it. If he had made it he would being Supreme have made a better job of it with far better thought given taking an example at random to things like the design of the common nostril. Or to put it another way the existence of a badly put-together watch proved the existence of a blind watchmaker. You only had to look around to see that there was room for improvement practically everywhere. This suggested that the Universe had probably been put together in a bit of a rush by an underling while the Supreme Being wasnt looking in the same way that Boy Scouts Association minutes are done on office photocopiers all over the country.So reasoned Koomi it was not a good idea to address any prayers to a Supreme Being. It would only attract his attention and might cause trouble.

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.

The child asks of the Father whom he knows. Thus the essence of Christian prayer is not general adoration but definite concrete petition. The right way to approach God is to stretch out our hands and ask of One who we know has the heart of a Father.