Prayer is never rejected so long as we do not cease to pray. The chief failure of prayer is its cessation.

We shall come one day to a heaven where we shall gratefully know that God's great refusals were sometimes the true answers to our truest prayer.

Prayer is, paradoxically, both a gift and a conquest, a grace and a duty. Does that not mean, is it not a special case of the truth, that all duty is a gift, every call on us a blessing, and that the task we often find a burden is really a boon?

All religion is founded on prayer, and in prayer it has its test and measure.

The blood of Christ stands not simply for the sting of sin on God but the scourge of God on sin, not simply for God's sorrow over sin, but for God's wrath on sin.

If within us we find nothing over us we succumb to what is around us.

Prayer is never rejected so long as we do not cease to pray. The chief failure of prayer is its cessation.