#ray

The candidate was required to prepare himself by confession, fasting, and passing the night in prayer. ↗

#confession #fasting #himself #night #passing

Let's say a Soviet exchange student back in the '70s would go back and tell the KGB about people and places and things that he'd seen and done and been involved with. This is not really espionage; there's no betrayal of trust. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#back #been #betrayal #done #espionage

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

#arises #bears #between #communion #double

The color of truth is gray. ↗

— Andre Gide

#gray #truth #truth is

I want you to stay with me,” he said. “And that’s the problem. Every time you leave me, I need you a little bit more. ↗

— Karina Halle

#experience

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#gray #hair #heart #knows

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you. ↗