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“The lights of prayer that make us imagine we are beginning to be angels are sometimes only signs that we are finally beginning to be men. We do not have a high enough opinion of our own nature. We ...”
“It has been said by many great Christians that prayer is our secret weapon. If we desire to be free from every enemy stronghold over our lives and fully fortified to live the superhuman existences ...”
“I pray for all of us, oppressor and friend,that together we may succeed in building a better worldthrough human understanding and love,and that in doing so we may reducethe pain and suffering of al...”
“The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to escape from the limitations of our own weakness and an invocation of all Goo...”
“If prayer stands as the place where God and human beings meet, then I must learn about prayer. Most of my struggles in the Christian life circle around the same two themes: why God doesn't act the ...”
“As long as we have unsolved problems, unfulfilled desires, and a mustard seed of faith, we have all we need for a vibrant prayer life.”
“Hail Mary full of Grace the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our dea...”
“Only when we can accept God as he is can we give up the desire for spiritual experiences that we can feel.”
“You might not be able to change your situation but prayer can.”
“Trying to describe what I do in prayer would be like telling the world how I make love to my wife. ”
“He had been (Thinking? Praying?) It was all the same thing.”
“Prayer is a path where there is none.”
“I have questioned God sometimes whether prayers have gone unanswered. But answered prayer is still harder to believe.”
“Does any one suppose that private prayer is necessarily candidnecessarily goes to the roots of action? Private prayer is inaudible speech, and speech is representative: who can represent himself ju...”
“You know, if you ain't poor, you might think it's the folks in them big ole fine brick churches that's doin all the carin and the prayin. I wish you coulda seen all them little circles a'homeless f...”
“Perhaps thought really is prayer.”
“Prayer is thinking deeply about something in the presence of God.”
“When you find yourself in one of those mystical/devotional frames of mind or in am emergency and you feel you want to pray, then pray. Dont ever be ashamed to pray or feel prevented by thinking you...”
“Prayer is the force as real as terrestrial gravity. As a physician, I have seen men, after all other therapy had failed, lifted out of disease and melancholy by the serene effort of prayer. Only in...”
“Cause that's the way prayer do. It's like electricity, it keeps things going.”
