#prayer

Prayer is the soul's sincere desire. Your desire is your prayer. It comes out of your deepest needs and it reveals the things you want in life. ↗

— Joseph Murphy

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Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the Book of Job: Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit. ↗

— Anne Lamott

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When I look back, I realize I was praying for something God had already given me. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#life #prayer #experience

Prayer is not a means of removing the unknown and predictable elements in life, but rather a way of including the unknown and unpredictable in the outworking of the grace of God in our lives. ↗

— Philip Yancey

#religion #life

Love is the only prayer I know. ↗

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

#prayer #love

Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book. ↗

— Charles Lamb

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A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer. ↗

— Doris Lessing

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A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer. ↗

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

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God does say He will graciously entertain our prayers. He says that if we exercise faith, and if our request is in accordance with His will, He will hear us. ↗

— Walter Martin

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Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance. ↗

— Margaret Mead

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