When the opposite of your prayer occurs, your prayer hasn't been ignored; it's been considered & refused for your ultimate good.

You must not do, you must not even try to do, the will of the Father unless you are prepared to 'know of the doctrine'.

Every sin is the distortion of an energy breathed into us.

At least he went on saying this till Aslan had loaded him up with three dwarfs, one dryad, two rabbits, and a hedgehog, that steadied him a bit.

This was bad grammar of course, but that is how beavers talk when they are excited; I mean, in Narnia--in our world they usually don't talk at all. - The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe

Most people don't need to be taught, they need only to be reminded

That is why Christians are told not to judge. We see only the results which a man's choices make out of his raw material. But God does not judge him on the raw material at all, but on what he has done with it.