Yearning: It needs to hurt in order to be worthy of the word. Otherwise it is just wanting.

I am an example of someone who succeeded by failing the whole way.

Commitment is doing the thing you said you’d do, long after the mood you said it in has left you! 

I have found the paradox that when I love until it hurts there is not more hurt but more love.

We must be willing to pay the price of having our prayers answered.

My only relief was in prayer. . . . I had asked the Lord to lead me in the right way for my best good and the way to fit me for a place in his kingdom. . . . I must follow in the path he dictated and that was all there was to it.

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are certain moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

We hear in these days of scientific enlightenment a great deal of discussion about the efficacy of Prayer. Many reasons are given why we should not pray. Others give reasons why we should pray. Very little is said of the reason we do pray. The reason is simple: We pray because we cannot help praying.

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.