#ray

I was one of I think three white girls in my school. So, I was very much an outsider. And plus I was Jewish and all of my friends were black and Baptist because they listen to the coolest music. We were all listening to Ray Charles and what was then called race music. ↗

— Janis Ian

#because #black #called #charles #coolest

For it is we who must pray for our daily bread, and if He grants it to us, it is only through our labour, our skill and preparation. ↗

— Paracelsus

#daily #daily bread #grants #labour #must

There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God. ↗

— Ivan Illich

#distance #god #greater #man #prayer

Action is the normal completion of the act of will which begins as prayer. That action is not always external, but it is always some kind of effective energy. ↗

— Dean Inge

#action #always #begins #completion #effective

Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself. ↗

— William Ralph Inge

#gentleman #getting #gives #hardly #himself

The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#kind #mystic #nature #observer #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

#change

One of the Silent Brothers is here to see you. Hodge sent me to wake you up. Actually he offered to wake you himself, but since it's 5 a.m., I figured you'd be less cranky if you had something nice to look at." "Meaning you?" "What else? ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#ego #jace-wayland #city

Or maybe it's just that beautiful things are so easily broken by the world. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#fragility #jocelyn-fray #beauty

If you really love something, you never try to keep it the way it is forever. You have to let it be free to change. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#mortal-instruments #pg- #change