Prayer and helplessness are inseparable. Only he who is helpless can truly pray. Your helplessness is your best. prayer.

To pray is nothing more involved than to open the door, giving Jesus access to our needs and permitting Him to exercise His own power in dealing with them.

Only he who is helpless can truly pray.

Prayer is the conduit through which power from heaven is brought to earth.

Helplessness is your best prayer. It calls from your heart to the heart of God with greater effect than all your uttered pleas.

The more helpless you are, the better you are fitted to pray, and the more answers to prayer you will experience.

My praying friend, continue to make known your desires to God in all things. ... Let Him decide whether you are to receive what you ask for or not.

We need to learn to know Him so well that we feel safe when we have left our difficulties with Him. To know in that way is a prerequisite of all true prayer.

Helplessness is the real secret and the impelling power of prayer.

The secret prayer chamber is a bloody battleground. Here violent and decisive battles are fought out. Here the fate of souls for time and eternity is determined, in quietude and solitude.

Prayer is a condition of mind, an attitude of heart, which God recognizes as prayer whether it manifests itself in quiet thinking, in sighing or in audible words.

Free yourself from the complexities of your life! A life of simplicity and happiness awaits you.

I wisely started with a map.

It is strange the way that someone who wants to find you guilty can start to make you believe in your own guilt, even when you know you are innocent. I was afraid I would condemn myself my mistake.

The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the trivialities which are no training at all.

There are few, if any, Canadian men that have never spelled their name in a snow bank.

I wish I wrote drafts and then revised them, but I don't. What I do is I seem to revise as I go.

Children allowed to take responsibility and given a serious part in the larger world are always superior to those merely permitted to play and be passive.

I believe I am not mistaken in saying that Christianity is a demanding and serious religion. When it is delivered as easy and amusing, it is another kind of religion altogether.

I'm always fully invested. It's a great feeling to be caught with your pants up.

You never know what life means till you die; even throughout life, tis death that makes life live.