If you place [your bet] with God, you lose nothing, even if it turns out that God does not exist. But if you place it against God, and you are wrong and God does exist, you lose everything.

We can't believe what we believe to be untrue, and we can't love what we believe to be unreal.

Trusting God's grace means trusting God's love for us rather than our love for God. […] Therefore our prayers should consist mainly of rousing our awareness of God's love for us rather than trying to rouse God's awareness of our love for him, like the priests of Baal on Mount Carmel (1 Kings 18:26-29).

I guarantee you that after you die you will not say 'I spent too much time praying; I wish I had watched more TV instead.

The single most important piece of advice about prayer is one word: Begin!

We try too much and trust too little. Count the times God's Book tells us to "try." Now count the times it tells us to "trust.

The only way God can strengthen his presence in our will is to weaken his presence in our feelings. Otherwise we would become spiritual cripples, unable to walk without emotional crutches. This is why he gives us dryness, sufferings, and failures.

God really performs the miracle of multiplying our time, but only if we give it to him first.

Nothing but prayer can make saints because nothing but God can make saints, and we meet God in prayer. Prayer is the hospital for souls where we meet Doctor God.