God is not a vending machine where if you put in enough prayer quarters we get a Reese's Pieces bag that pops out.

Is there a point at which we hit a tipping point and all of this economic, cultural and moral trouble sends us into a death spiral we can't get out of?

Prophecy is an intercept from the mind of an all-knowing and all-seeing and all-powerful God.

We need to sell 10 books a day from every machine to make them profitable. Vending machines aren't going to outshine traditional bookshops.

I'm a simple man. All I want is enough sleep for two normal men, enough whiskey for three, and enough women for four.

Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us. As we engage in this communion with God more deeply and come to know the One with whom we are speaking more intimately, that growing knowledge of God reveals to us all the more brilliantly who we are and our need to change in conformity to Him. Prayer changes us profoundly.