If you approached people with trust and affection you would have ten-fold trust and thousand-fold.
Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.
You don't know who is important to you until you actually lose them.
To double your successes, you might have to double your failure rate.
Far more indispensable then food for the physical body is spiritual nourishment for the soul. One can do without food for a considerable time, but a man of the spirit cannot exist for a single second without spiritual nourishment.
It is better to be charged with cowardice and weakness than to be guilty of denial of our oath and sin against God.