Your prayer for someone may or may not change them, but it always changes YOU.
Craig GroeschelI don't pray because it doesn't work. Prayer doesn't fix anything. Bad things happen anyway.
Nicholas SparksWe do not want to be beginners [at prayer]. but let us be convinced of the fact that we will never be anything but beginners, all our life!
Thomas MertonTags: prayer
So you make this deal with the gods. You do these dances and they'll send rain and good crops and the whole works? And nothing bad will ever happen. Right.' Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction. A rain dance even more so.
I thought I might finally have offended Loyd past the point of no return, like stealing the lobster from frozen foods that time, to get myself fired. But Loyd was just thinking. After a minute he said, 'No, it's not like that. It's not making a deal, bad things can still happen, but you want to try not to cause them to happen. It has to do with keeping things in balance.'
In balance.'
Really, it's like the spirits have made a deal with us.'
And what is the deal?' I asked.
We're on our own. The spirits have been good enough to let us live here and use the utilities, and we're saying: We know how nice you're being. We appreciate the rain, we appreciate the sun, we appreciate the deer we took. Sorry if we messed up anything. You've gone to a lot of trouble, and we'll try to be good guests.'
Like a note you'd send somebody after you stayed in their house?'
Exactly like that. 'Thanks for letting me sleep on your couch. I took some beer out of the refrigerator, and I broke a coffee cup. Sorry, I hope it wasn't your favorite one.
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Spirituality without a prayer life is no spirituality at all, and it will not last beyond the first defeats. Prayer is an opening of the self so that the Word of God can break in and make us new. Prayer unmasks. Prayer converts. Prayer impels. Prayer sustains us on the way. Pray for the grace it will take to continue what you would like to quit.
Joan D. ChittisterTags: spirituality prayer
If I am right, Thy grace impart
Still in the right to stay;
If I am wrong, O, teach my heart
To find that better way!
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Praying and sinning will never live together in the same heart. Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.
J.C. RyleTags: prayer
When I worship, I would rather my heart be without words than my words be without heart.
LaMar BoschmanThe gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers. Prayer is a dangerous business.
Lois McMaster BujoldTags: prayer curses curse-of-chalion
The more you pray, the less you'll panic. The more you worship, the less you worry. You'll feel more patient and less pressured.
Rick WarrenTags: prayer worry worship anxiety
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