Feast of Edward the Confessor, 1066 The trouble with nearly everybody who prays is that he says "Amen" and runs away before God has a chance to reply. Listening to God is far more important than giving Him your ideas.

When compassion for the common man was born on Christmas Day, with it was born new hope among the multitudes. They feel a great, ever-rising determination to lift themselves and their children our of hunger and disease and misery, up to a higher level. Jesus started a fire upon the earth, and it is burning hot today, the fire of a new hope in the hearts of the hungry multitudes.

Beside Jesus, the whole lot of us are so contemptible... But God is like Jesus, and like Jesus, He will not give up until we, too, are like Jesus.

Prayer at its highest is a two-way conversation-and for me the most important part is listening to God's replies.

There is no defeat unless one loses God, and then all is defeat, though it be housed in castles and buried in fortunes.

Frank: All the faults of the age come from Christianity and journalism. Arthur: Christianity, of course, but why journalism?