Prayer is first of all listening to God. It's openness. God is always speaking; he's always doing something. Prayer is to enter into that activity. ... Convert your thoughts into prayer. As we are involved in unceasing thinking, so we are called to unceasing prayer. The difference is not that prayer is thinking about other things, but that prayer is thinking in dialogue, ... a conversation with God.

If 'pro' is the opposite of 'con' what is the opposite of 'progress'?

Paul Harvey

Fear does not have any special power unless you empower it by submitting to it.

Les Brown

It is essential that justice be done, it is equally vital that justice not be confused with revenge, for the two are wholly different.

Oscar Arias

He's as cool as a prized marrow!

Sid Waddell

To have found you is a dear happiness; and to be Apollo's son is beyond all my hopes; but there is something I want to say to you alone. Come; this is a private matter between us two - anything you tell me shall be as secret as the grave.

Euripides, Ion

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

George Bernard Shaw

It takes time to live. Like any work of art, life needs to be thought about.

Albert Camus

If you want to be the best, you have to do things that other people aren't willing to do.

Michael Phelps

Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

J. August Strindberg

You can enjoy a deep sense of satisfaction and happiness in life despite challenging circumstances. It's all in how you think about it.

Kristi Bowman

I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence.

Ansel Adams

The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.

William S. Burroughs