Brains can argue, but it takes heart to comfort.

There is no way to learn to pray but by praying.

There is no way of learning to pray but by praying. No reasoned philosophy of prayer ever taught a soul to pray. We know not what we should pray for as we ought, and if prayer waits for understanding it will never begin. We discover by using. We learn by practice. Though a man should have all knowledge about prayer, and though he should understand all mysteries about prayer, unless he prays he will never learn to pray.

Passion does not compensate for ignorance.

The soul is never less alone than when it is alone with God.

Destitute of the fire of God, nothing else counts; possessing fire, nothing else matters.

To pray in the name of Christ is to pray as one who is at one with Christ, whose minid is the mind of Christ, whose desires are the desires of Christ, and whose purpose is one with that of Christ.