Who said “Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you…”?

“It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.”

“Pray, v. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.”

“Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God.”

“God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in't.”

“Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.”

“Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.”

“In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.”

“We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.”

“Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible — not to have run away.”

“In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.”

“What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.”