#prayer

The sovereign cure for worry is prayer. ↗

— William James

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Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God. ↗

— E. Stanley Jones

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Prayer means that the total you is praying. Your whole being reaches out to God, and God reaches down to you. ↗

— E. Stanley Jones

#down #god #means #out #prayer

Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us - an exercise that links these faculties with the Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their creation. ↗

— E. Stanley Jones

#continuing #creation #exercise #faculties #given

Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you. ↗

— E. Stanley Jones

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Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment. ↗

— E. Stanley Jones

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Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end. ↗

— George Santayana

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Reading is a form of prayer, a guided meditation that briefly makes us believe we're someone else, disrupting the delusion that we're permanent and at the center of the universe. Suddenly (we're saved!) other people are real again, and we're fond of them. ↗

— George Saunders

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I never force myself to be devout except when I feel so inspired, and never compose hymns of prayers unless I feel within me real and true devotion. ↗

— Franz Schubert

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Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion. ↗

— Michael Shermer

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