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“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.”
“Does any one suppose that private prayer is necessarily candid—necessarily goes to the roots of action? Private prayer is inaudible speech, and speech is representative: who can represent himself j...”
“Cause that's the way prayer do. It's like electricity, it keeps things going.”
“Prayer, desperate prayer, seems so simple, but it’s a step rarely taken by those in family conflict.”
“Our God, who art our winged self, it is thy will in us that willeth.It is thy desire in us that desireth. It is thy urge in us that would turn our nights, which are thine, into days which are thine...”
“All stories are, in some form, prayers.”
“It was only at her prayers that she felt able to think calmly and clearly either of Prince Andrey or Anatole, with a sense that her feelings for them were as nothing compared with her feel of worsh...”
“I delight to come to my bearings,—not walk in procession with pomp and parade, in a conspicuous place, but to walk even with the Builder of the universe, if I may,—not to live in this restless, ner...”
“Prayer doesn’t begin with our needs, but with his bounty.”
“It shouldn’t surprise us…to find that prayer is not finally about getting things from God, but getting God.”
“This is the heart of prayer—not getting things from God, but getting God.”
“…Prayer to God is not only the place for divulging our heart, but also developing our desires.”
“Constant prayer interrupts our ego trips and disrupts our toxic trajectories.”
“Prayer is the superabundance of the heart. It is brim-full and running over with love and praise, as once it was with Mary, when the Word took root in her body. So too, our heart breaks out into a ...”
“All that stuff about Father Earth, it's just stories to explain what's wrong with the world. Like those weird cults that crop up from time to time. I heard of one that asks an old man in the sky to...”
“They pray.To whom?To God.To pray to God, - what is the meaning of these words?Is there an infinite beyond us? Is that infinite there, inherent, permanent; necessarily substantial, since it is infin...”
“When we try to express communion with God in words, we rapidly reach the end of our capacities. But in the depths of our being Christ is praying for more than we imagine. Compared to the immensity ...”
“Her mother said, Every morning I go up on the roof at six o'clock and pray for twenty minutes. It keeps me from coming apart. Her mother said, Coming apart, coming apart--it's just a crazy thing I ...”
“It's a fine day for a prayer. But then, most days are.''That's what you were doing? Praying?' At his nod, I asked, 'For what do you petition the gods?'He raised his brows. 'Petition?''Isn't that wh...”
