Prayer does not mean simply to pour out one's heart. It means rather to find the way to God and to speak with him, whether the heart is full or empty.

Do not try to make the Bible relevant. Its relevance is axiomatic.

I can no longer condemn or hate a brother for whom I pray, no matter how much trouble he causes me.

What we shall need is not geniuses, or cynics, or misanthropes, or clever tacticians, but plain, honest, straghtforward men.

It is only because he became like us that we can become like him.

We are torn out of our own existence and set down in the midst of the holy history of God on earth. There God dealt with us, and there he still deals with us, our needs and our sins, in judgment and grace.

The more deeply we grow into the psalms and the more often we pray them as our own, the more simple and rich will our prayer become.