“Prayer is the most daring thing you can do. The devil wants to convince us that it’s boring, routine, and doesn’t accomplish much, if anything. This is a lie. Prayer is where we as individuals and especially as a body of believers do battle with sin in our hearts, call upon God to transform the hearts and lives of those around us, and ask him to reshape the world into what he’s designed it to be.“
– C. John Miller
“Gratitude exclaims, very poorly, ‘How good of God to give me this.’ Adoration says, ‘What must be the quality of that Being who’s far off and momentary coruscations (sparkling flashes of God‘s wit and brilliance) are like this!’ One’s mind runs back up the sunbeam to the sun.“
– C. S. Lewis.
“Our task is to grow up into the Our Father, dare to impersonate our older brother, seeking daily bread and daily forgiveness as we do so: to wear his clothes, to walk in his shoes, to feast at his table, to weep with him in the garden, to share his suffering, and to know his victory. As our Savior, Jesus Christ has commanded us, by his life and death, even more than by his words, we are bold, very bold, – even crazy, some might think – to say ‘Our Father’.“
– N. T. Wright.
