If we truly love people, we will desire for them far more than it is within our power to give them, and this leads us to prayer.

Prayer is simply saying "thank you, bless you, praise you."

If the Lord is to be Lord, worship must have priority in our lives. The divine priority is worship first, service second.

Just as worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience. If worship does not propel us into greater obedience, it has not been worship.

The truth of the matter is, we all come to prayer with a tangled mass of motives altruistic and selfish, merciful and hateful, loving and bitter. Frankly, this side of eternity we will never unravel the good from the bad, the pure from the impure. God is big enough to receive us with all our mixture.

Go another step. Try to live one entire day without words at all. Do it not as a law, but as an experiment. Note your feelings of helplessness and excessive dependence upon words to communicate. Try to find new ways to relate to tohers that are not dependent upon words. Enjoy, savor the day. Learn from it.

Stop trying to impress people with your clothes and impress them with your life.