#pray

We have one crystal clear reason apart from the blessed happiness of this way of life. It is this: prayer is the core of our day. Take prayer out, and the day would collapse, would be pithless, a straw blown in the wind. But how can you pray--really pray, I mean--with one against who you have a grudge or whom you have been discussing critically with another? Try it. You will find it cannot be done. ↗

— Amy Carmichael

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Father, in those moments of utter exasperation, help me to want You as much as I need You! ↗

— Evinda Lepins

#god #god-is-in-control #life-quote #prayer #life

Whether you teach or live in the cloister or nurse the sick, whether you are in religion or out of it, married or single, no matter who you are or what you are, you are called to the summit of perfection: you are called to a deep interior life perhaps even to mystical prayer, and to pass the fruits of your contemplation on to others. And if you cannot do so by word, then by example. Yet if this sublime fire of infused love burns in your soul, it will inevitably send forth throughout the Church and the world an influence more tremendous than could be estimated by the radius reached by words or by example. ↗

— Thomas Merton

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I realize how depraved it was to instill false guilt in an innocent child's conscience, causing a distorted image of life, God, & self, leaving little if any feeling of personal worth. ↗

— Mary Griffith

#gay #leroy-arrons #lgbt #marry-griffith #prayers-for-bobby

Today I want to belong. I want to feel safe and at home. I want to be aware of what it is like simply to be, without defenses or desires. I will appreciate the flow of life for what it is-my own true self. I will notice those moments of intimacy with myself, when I feel that “I am” is enough to sustain me forever. I will lie on the grass at one with nature, expanding until my being fades into the infinite. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

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I'm praying for you, Mary. I want you to live forever. ↗

— Truman Capote

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Help me give up my addiction to Hope. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

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Dear God, I hurt. Please hold me. Amen ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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Our forgiving love toward men is the evidence of God's forgiving love in us. It is a necessary condition of the prayer of faith. ↗

— Andrew Murray

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Our conversation with God should be utterly free and familiar, because God is the only person who will never, ever misunderstand us and never, ever reject us (hate us, ignore us, or be indifferent to us). These are the tow reasons we hid from other people, even our friends, even our parents, and the tow reasons we should never hide from God. ↗

— Peter Kreeft

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