Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love prayer and forgiveness.

Yom Kippur the Day of Atonement is the holy of holies of Jewish time. It is that rarest of phenomena a Jewish festival without food. Instead it is a day of fasting and prayer introspection and self-judgment when collectively and repeatedly we confess our sins and pray to be written into God's Book of Life.

Jews have deep respect for the Queen and the royal family. We say a prayer for them every Sabbath in synagogue. We recite a special blessing on seeing the Queen.

I desire an special interest in your prayers that my faith fail not in the day of adversity.

You often feel that your prayers scarcely reach the ceiling but oh get into this humble spirit by considering how good the Lord is and how evil you all are and then prayer will mount on wings of faith to heaven.

God does say He will graciously entertain our prayers. He says that if we exercise faith and if our request is in accordance with His will He will hear us.

The mind controls so much of the body. We are much more than flesh and blood we are complex systems. Patients do better when they have faith that they're going to do better. That's why I always tell my patients and their families not to neglect their prayers. There's nobody I don't say that to.

I think you grow wherever God plants you. I hope I'm growing as a person of faith as a Christian. That should be our number one objective this journey of life. That all starts with a personal intimate relationship with Christ and then being in prayer every single day about all of those things - being tenacious about it.

From faith hope and love the virtues of religion referring to God there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual communion exercised between God and us the hearing of the word and prayer.

Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.