Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.
Mary Harris JonesTags: life death living dead prayer
Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one
Bruce LeeTags: prayer advice-for-daily-living
Dear Jesus, do something.
Vladimir NabokovTags: prayer
I talk to God but the sky is empty.
Sylvia PlathIf the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.
Meister EckhartA prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
Tennessee WilliamsTags: prayer cages wild-at-heart
When we retire at night, we constructively review our day. Were we resentful, selfish, dishonest or afraid? Do we owe an apology? Have we kept something to ourselves which should be discussed with another person at once? Were we kind and loving toward all? What could we have done better? Were we thinking of ourselves most of the time? Or were we thinking of what we could do for others, of what we could pack into the stream of life? But we must be careful not to drift into worry, remorse or morbid reflection, for that would diminish our usefulness to others. After making our review we ask God’s forgiveness and inquire what corrective measures should be taken.
On awakening let us think about the twenty-four hours ahead. We consider our plans for the day. Before we begin, we ask God to direct our thinking, especially asking that it be divorced from self-pity, dishonest or self-seeking motives. Under these conditions we can employ our mental faculties with assurance, for after all God gave us brains to use. Our thought-life will be placed on a much higher plane when our thinking is cleared of wrong motives.
In thinking about our day we may face indecision. We may not be able to determine which course to take. Here we ask God for inspiration, an intuitive thought or a decision. We relax and take it easy. We don’t struggle. We are often surprised how the right answers come after we have tried this for a while.
What used to be the hunch or the occasional inspiration gradually becomes a working part of the mind. Being still inexperienced and having just made conscious contact with God, it is not probable that we are going to be inspired at all times. We might pay for this presumption in all sorts of absurd actions and ideas. Nevertheless, we find that our thinking will, as time passes, be more and more on the plane of inspiration. We come to rely upon it.
We usually conclude the period of meditation with a prayer that we be shown all through the day what our next step is to be, that we be given whatever we need to take care of such problems. We ask especially for freedom from self-will, and are careful to make no request for ourselves only. We may ask for ourselves, however, if others will be helped. We are careful never to pray for our own selfish ends. Many of us have wasted a lot of time doing that and it doesn’t work. You can easily see why.
Tags: spirituality prayer
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
John BunyanTags: inspirational words prayer christian
God will answer you prayers better than you think. Of course, one will not always get exactly what he has asked for....We all have sorrows and disappointments, but one must never forget that, if commended to God, they will issue in good....His own solution is far better than any we could conceive.
Fanny J. CrosbyTags: inspirational spiritual prayer christian
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer."
[Mark Twain, a Biography]
Tags: humor profanity prayer relief you-ll-completely-understand-why
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