God cannot hear the prayers on our lips often because the desires of our heart after the world cry out to Him much more strongly and loudly than the our desires for Him.

Pride must die in you, or nothing of heaven can live in you.

Our forgiving love toward men is the evidence of God's forgiving love in us. It is a necessary condition of the prayer of faith.

We must begin to believe that God, in the mystery of prayer, has entrusted us with a force that can move the Heavenly world, and can bring its power down to earth.

Humility is the displacement of self by the enthronement of God.

Prayer [is] the quiet, persistent living of our life of desire and faith in the presence of our God.

As natural and easy as it has been to be proud, it must become natural for us to be humble.