Communion With God

Jesus, like all other religious leaders, taught [people] to pray, that is, He taught them to look away from the world of ordinary sense impressions and to open the heart and spirit to God; yet He is always insistent that religion must be related to life. It is only by contact with God that a better quality of living can be achieved - and Jesus Himself, as the records show, spent many hours in communion with God - yet that new quality of life has to be both demonstrated and tested in the ordinary rough-and-tumble of plain living. It is in ordinary human relationships that the validity of a [person's] communion with God is to be proved.

- J. B. Phillips