#prayer

Prayer is the center of the Christian life. It is the only necessary thing. It is living with God in the here and now. ↗

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

#prayer #life

Prayer is asking God to incarnate, to get dirty in your life. Yes, the eternal God scrubs floors. For sure we know he washes feet. So take Jesus at his word. Ask him. Tell him what you want. Get dirty. Write out your prayer requests; don't mindlessly drift through life on the American narcotic of busyness. If you try to seize the day, the day will eventually break you. Seize the corner of his garment and don't let go until he blesses you. He will reshape the day. ↗

— Paul E. Miller

#prayer #tenacity #life

Many people have found prayer impossible because they thought they should only pray for wonderful but remote needs they actually had little or no interest in or even knowledge of. Prayer simply dies from efforts to pray about ‘good things’ that honestly do not matter to us. The way to get to meaningful prayer for those good things is to start by praying for what we are truly interested in. The circle of our interests will inevitably grow in the largeness of God’s love.” --Dallas Willard ↗

— Dallas Willard

#life

I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some sort of Buddhist. But the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer. ↗

— Henri Matisse

#buddhist #close #essential #essential thing #frame

It takes me forever to say my prayers these days, but I don't care, because this time around, I want to make sure God doesn't have to do any guesswork. ↗

— Terry McMillan

#around #because #care #days #forever

Cover this confirmation process with prayer. When they make it harder for us to pray, we just pray harder. ↗

— Zell Miller

#cover #harder #just #make #pray

Work is a prayer, and I start off every morning dedicating it to our Creator. ↗

— Joe Murray

#dedicating #every #i #morning #off

So I went in front of the judge, and I had my St. Jude prayer book in my pocket and my St. Jude medal. And I'm standing there and that judge said I was found guilty, so he sentenced me to what the law prescribed: one to 14 years. ↗

— Aaron Neville

#found #front #guilty #had #i

When I went public with my breast cancer diagnosis six weeks ago, the overwhelming outpouring of love, prayers and support really helped me heal faster. I want to make sure to thank everyone. ↗

— Giuliana Rancic

#breast cancer #cancer #diagnosis #everyone #faster

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us. ↗

— Socrates

#best #blessings #general #god #good