Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song. Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.