If we know how to pray, we know how to live.

God, to redeem us at the deepest portion of our nature - the urge to love and be loved - must reveal His nature in an incredible and impossible way. He must reveal it at a cross.

At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption.

When prayer fades out, power fades out. We are as spiritual as we are prayerful; no more, no less.

A reduced Christ is the same as a rejected Christ.

In our Ashrams of East and West, places of spiritual retreat, we begin with what we call "The Morning of the Open Heart," in which we tell our needs. . . . We give four or five hours to this catharsis. The reaction of one member, who listened to it for the first time, was: "Good gracious, have we all the disrupted people in the country here?" My reply was: "No, you have a cross section of the church life honestly revealed." In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to a appear better than we really are.

If you don't make up your mind, your unmade mind will unmake you.