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The problem is, I think, that so many of us pray as if we are ordering groceries. We pick up the telephone and say, 'Is this the right place to place my order?' and we proceed right to dictating our order. When we have then ended that list, we hang up.

For me, prayer is not so much me setting out a shopping list of requests for God to consider as it is a way of 'keeping company with God.'

My desk drawer is filled with all kinds of prayers.

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

There is a god within us.

God seems to be an unwilling participant in our efforts to pigeonhole Him.

Praying is like a rocking chair - it'll give you something to do, but it won't get you anywhere.

Man's access in prayer to God opens everything and makes his impoverishment his wealth. All things are his through prayer.

I will tell you this much. God himself comes down with his ribs from Heaven, and he distributes them to the TGI Friday's. And that's how they get them.