Prayer is not conquering God’s reluctance, but taking hold of God’s willingness.

Pray without ceasing, God may make thee wait 
And keep thee at His door on bended knee.
But fear not He will leave thee desolate, 
He may bless others first, but will bless thee.

‘O Thou that hearest prayer, unto Thee shall all flesh come.’

There is no race of man which does not believe in a spiritual world, and which does not, in moments of anguish, lift up beseeching hands and imploring eyes to a being.

With faith that comes of self-control
The truths that never can be proved
Until we close with all we loved 
And all we flow from, soul in soul.

My father, who was a Hebrew scholar, told me that the word in the original is to be ‘silent unto,’ or before the Lord. – ‘They that are silent unto the Lord shall renew their strength.’

Only in the sacredness of inward silence does the soul truly meet the secret, hiding God. 

All great things are born of silence.

[meditation] gives us no matter for criticism and doubt, but everything for wonder and for love.