If God is your Copilot – swap seats!

True prayer is something more than desire. It is no mere subjective instinct, … no blind outreach. If it met no response, no answer, it would soon be weeded out of the race. Prayer has stood the test of experience. In fact, the very desire to pray is in itself prophetic of a heavenly Friend. So this native need of the soul rose out of the divine origin of the soul, and it has steadily verified itself as a safe guide to reality. In the first instance it is not asking for anything, it is not petition; all it seeks is God Himself: Let me find Thee, let me know Thee, then I will ask of Thee.

…George B. Stevens

“I don’t believe in God . . . that’s OK,; God believes in you!”

Count of Monte Cristo

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude.

…William James

A child kicks its legs rhythmically through excess, not absence, of life. Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, “Do it again”; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough… It is possible that God says every morning, “Do it again,” to the sun; and every evening, “Do it again,” to the moon. It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike: it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never got tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we.

…G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936), Orthodoxy [1909]

Commemoration of Bartolomè de las Casas, Apostle to the Indies, 1566

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

…Jim Elliot (1927-1956), missionary, martyr, The Journals of Jim Elliot [1978]

All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired, although not in the hour or in the measure, or the very thing which they ask; yet they will obtain something greater and more glorious than they had dared to ask.

…Martin Luther (1483-1546)

Some minds are like concrete, thoroughly mixed up and permanently set.

Prayer: Don’t give God instructions — just report for duty!

“I’ve found that anytime I followed my heart, good things almost always happened. It may not be what you think will happen, or even what you think should happen. But the heart can open doors.”
James Dodson, from his book Final Rounds