Our praying, to be strong, must be buttressed by holy living. The life of faith perfects the prayer of faith.

Four things let us ever keep in mind: God hears prayer, God heeds prayer, God answers prayer, and God delivers by prayer.

All God's plans have the mark of the cross on them, and all His plans have death to self in them.

He who is too busy to pray will be too busy to live a holy life. Satan had rather we let the grass grow on the path to our prayer chamber than anything else.

It is necessary to iterate and reiterate that prayer, as a mere habit, as a performance gone through by routine or in a professional way, is a dead and rotten thing.

Prayer honors God, acknowledges His being, exalts His power, adores His providence, secures His aid.

Prayer succeeds when all else fails

If God is not first in our thoughts and efforts in the morning, He will be in the last place the remainder of the day.

God shapes the world by prayer. The more prayer there is in the world the better the world will be, the mightier the forces of against evil

Prayer is not learned in a classroom but in the closet.

We regard prayer no longer as a duty which must be performed, but rather as a privilege which is to be enjoyed, a rare delight that is always revealing some new beauty.

My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.

Talk to the jury as though your client's fate depends on every word you utter.

I'm not sure how a world leader reacts to the work of a clown.

Charity is to will and do what is just and right in every transaction.

The wisest advice I ever received regarding the kitchen came from my mother: 'Do the dishes while you're cooking.

I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.

Learn about writing from reading. That is the right way to do it.

This theme of bigness — all painters and sculptors have dealt with it ever since.

Grief brims itself and flows away in tears.

To say that a man is a reasoning animal is a very different thing than to say that most of man's decisions are based on his rational process. That I don't believe at all.