Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us – an exercise that links these faculties with the Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their creation. – E. Stanley Jones
Unfortunately there is nothing more inane than an Easter carol. It is a religious perversion of the activity of Spring in our blood. – Wallace Stevens, 1916
The primary source of the appeal of Christianity was Jesus – His incarnation, His life, His crucifixion, and His resurrection. – Kenneth Scott Latourette
The words were unexpected, but so incisively true. So much of prayer is like that—an encounter with a truth that has sunk to the bottom of the heart, that wants to be found, wants to be spoken, wants to be elevated into the realm of sacredness. – Sue Monk Kidd
For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph. – Thomas Mann
