The action carries a sense of incompleteness and frustration, but not of guilt. Victorious living does not mean perfect living in the sense of living without flaw, but it does mean adequate living, and that can be consistent with many mistakes.

Prayer is surrender--surr ender to the will of God and cooperation with that will. If I throw out a boathook from the boat and catch hold of the shore and pull, do I pull the shore to me, or do I pull myself to the shore? Prayer is not pulling God to my will, but the aligning of my will to the will of God.

In conversion you are not attached primarily to an order, nor to an institution, nor a movement, nor a set of beliefs, nor a code of action - you are attached primarily to a Person, and secondarily to these other things.

We find, sooner or later, that in prayer we either abandon ourselves or we abandon prayer.

When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent.

When man listens, God speaks; when man obeys, God acts; when man prays, God empowers.

Prayer means that the total you is praying. Your whole being reaches out to God, and God reaches down to you.