“Prayer is a form of communication between God and man and man and God…. I am always impressed by the fact that it is recorded that the only thing that the disciples asked Jesus to teach them how to do was to pray.”
Disciplines of the Spirit (1977)
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Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 387.

Letter to Judge Lance Ito, requesting clemency for Charles Keating (January 18 1992), as quoted by Christopher Hitchens in The Missionary Position http://books.google.com/books?id=PTgJIjK67rEC&pg=PA11&dq=%22I+think+it+is+very+beautiful+for+the+poor+to+accept+their+lot%22, (Verso, 1995), page 67
1990s
“No man has yet appreciated all that is involved in Jesus' teaching regarding God.”
Source: Something More, A Consideration of the Vast, Undeveloped Resources of Life (1920), p. 43

Cults, Sects and Questions (c. 1979)

“Man is forming thousands of ridiculous relations between himself and God.”
Book II, Ch. 12
Essais (1595), Book II

Memoirs of J. Casanova de Seingalt (1894)
Matt. 17:10–13
Reincarnation & Christianity (1967)