“If you are too busy to pray, you are busier than God wants you to be.”

“If you want to talk to God, pray. If you want him to talk to you, read your scriptures.”

“Know what you want and pray God that you recognize it when you see it....”

“You may be at odds with God right now. You're not happy with the way your life is turning out. You may be praying and pleading with God. But is it possible you don't really want God? Is it possible you just want what you think God can give you? One of the things I believe God is teaching me in my life these days is that at times we want our dreams more than we want God. We want what God does for us instead of just God.”

“You can do more than pray after you have prayed but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed.”

“The idea seemed to be that if you prayed extremely hard--especially if a lot of people prayed at once--maybe God would change things. The trouble was, what if your enemy was praying, too? Which prayer would God listen to?”