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Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.

Believe it or not, I say my prayers in the morning and in the evening.

Every one should find some suitable time, day or night, to sink into his depths, each according to his own fashion. Not every one is able to engage in contemplative prayer.

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality.

The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.

Knowing that the time to sleep has come, the Lord sleeps, and does well in sleeping. Often, when we have been fretting and worrying, we should have glorified God far more had we literally gone to sleep.

I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.

He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.

The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.