#prayer

I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time- waking and sleeping. It doesn't change God- it changes me. ↗

— William Nicholson

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#change

From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual communion exercised between God and us; the hearing of the word and prayer. ↗

— William Ames

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A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection. ↗

— Alexander Cockburn

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#childish #compulsory #infection #inoculated #open