The reason so many people do not pray is because of its cost. The cost is not so much in the sweat of agonizing supplication as in the daily fidelity to the life of prayer.

It is wonderful what God can do with a broken heart, if He gets all the pieces.

Prayer turns ordinary mortals into men of power. It brings power. It brings fire. It brings rain. It brings life. It brings God.

Satan laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray.

It takes us long to learn that prayer is more important than organization, more powerful than armies, more influential than wealth and mightier than all learning.

There is no better way to serve others than to pray for them. There is nothing about which I do not pray. I go over all my life in the presence of God. All my problems are solved there.

The root-trouble of the present distress is that the Church has more faith in the world and the flesh than in the Holy Ghost.

True prayer is a lonely business.

A season of silence is the best preparation for speech with God.

Confusion and impotence are the inevitable results when the wisdom and resources of the world are substituted for the presence and power of the Spirit.

The Church gives more time, thought, and money to recreation and sport than to prayer.

Time is the sole resource you gain if spent and waste if not.

Why should conversation always be so much more coherent than experience?

You're still alive. That means you're winning.

Time passes by like lightning. Before you know it you're struck down.

I took the hardest possible route that you could take, and I still overcame and succeeded.

The will to truth is merely the longing for a stable world.

Ranger sent us to check on you," Hal said. "We just got here, and we heard shots." "Some moron ate my jelly doughnut," Lula said. "So I shot him.

[To Bonaparte, when asked why she meddled in politics:] Sire, when women have their heads cut off, it is but just they should know the reason.

Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.

And then my chance really happened in 1996 when we added the second flight of the tether satellite.