Prayer is not the cunning art of using God, subjecting Him to one's selfish ends in an effort to get out of Him what you want.

If the 'self-life' is supreme, Satan does not have to be invited in. The lines are already set for the 'electric' current to flow. Satan is master of ceremonies, though he be apparently non-existent.

What is impossible to me as an imitator of Christ, becomes perfectly natural as a participant of Christ. It is Only when Christ nullifies the force of my inherent self' life, and communicates to me a Divine life, that Christian living in its true sense, is at all possible for me.