True friends... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.
On the back of Satan's neck is a nail scarred footprint.
In the science, Evolution is a theory about changes; in the myth it is a fact about improvements.
The best fruits are plucked for each by some hand that is not his own.
I believe that many who find that "nothing happens" when they sit down, or kneel down, to a book of devotion, would find that the heart sings unbidden while they are working their way through a tough bit of theology with a pipe in their teeth and a pencil in their hand.
Prayer in the sense of petition, asking for things, is a small part of it; confession and penitence are its threshold, adoration its sanctuary, the presence and vision and enjoyment of God its bread and wine.