"This is very important. When you get into St. Paul, every once in a while you get a lot of power, authority, and dominion, and we tend to slide right through that. But it is very important, because prayer is our real freedom. It is liberation from the alienation that I've been talking about.

"It is in prayer that we are truly and fully ourselves and we are not under any other power, authority, or dominion. We have to see what that means.

" 'He has put all things under his feet and made him, as the ruler of everything, the head of the church, which is his body, the fullness of him who fills the whole creation (Eph. 1:22-23).'

"You have to spend your whole life going over and over again through a passage like this. It is the only way you can ever get anywhere. You don't just read it a few times and then read it with a commentary. You keep coming back to it, and maybe after fifty years of chewing on it you begin to see what it really means."