#prayer

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

#prayer #spirituality #life

Memory, so complete and clear or so evasive, has to be ended, has to be put aside, as if one were leaving a chapel and bringing the prayer to an end in one's head. ↗

— Harold Brodkey

#bringing #chapel #clear #complete #end

God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in it. ↗

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#face #gauntlet #gift #god #our

Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#dreams #good #more #mr #prayer

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything. ↗

— George Eliot

#christ #doing #faith #jesus #look

Prayer, faith, and vision, plus real effort too. Blend them together for one potent brew; The magical spell to your dreams coming true. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#dreams #effort #faith #goals #hope

The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#compared #embrace #music #only #prayer

I'm for prayer in schools. ↗

— Charles Evers

#prayer #schools

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it. ↗