#aye

The good news is we don't have to suffer alone. We don't have to carry the burdens of our messy lives alone. God is there for us. He wants to be the Comforter in Chief for the worst that life on this earth may hand us. but we need to know Him - genuinely know Him - not just when tragedy strikes. We need to know Him every moment of every day we live. We need to quit leaving it to the professionals and make know Him the most important mission of our lives. ↗

— Diane Moody

#diane-moody #nonfiction #prayer #life

I found myself praying: "May I love and accept myself just as I am. ↗

— Tara Brach

#self-acceptance #life

In anguish and desperation, I reached out as I had many times before to the presence I call the Beloved. This unconditionally loving and wakeful awareness had always been a refuge for me. ↗

— Tara Brach

#life

...Jesus opens his arms to his needy children and says, "Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest"(Matthew 11:28, NASB). The criteria for coming to Jesus is weariness. Come overwhelmed with life. Come with you wandering mind. Come messy. ↗

— Paul E. Miller

#life

We don't know how bad we are until we try to be good. Nothing exposes our selfishness and spiritual pwerlessness like prayer. ↗

— Paul E. Miller

#life

The knowledge of our union with Christ...gives us confidence in prayer. It was when Jesus had begun to expound the closeness of this union that he also began to introduce the disciples to the true heart of prayer. If Christ abides in us and we abide in him, as his word dwells in us, and we pray in his name, that God hears us (Jn 15:4-7). But all of these expressions are simply extensions of the one fundamental idea: If I am united to Christ, then all that is his is mine. So long as my heart, will and mind are one with Christ's in his word, I can approach God with the humble confidence that my prayers will be heard and answered. ↗

— Sinclair B. Ferguson

#union-with-christ #life

I gave you all the happiness of my life,where are you ? You took my joy away from me,where are you ? give it back,i have life too. ↗

— Chandran Nair

#life

I heard you were a player , okay , lets play a game. We'll flirt, play fights, talk 24/7, say goodmorning and goodnight every day, give each other nicknames, hang out, talk on the phone for hours, take cute pictures together, make promises to each other and hold each other. And whoever falls in love first, loses. ↗

— Lyla Tyela Belikov

#fight #flirt #game #heart-broken #lose

Trying to describe what I do in prayer would be like telling the world how I make love to my wife. ↗

— J.I. Packer

#love

Everything you do is connected to who you are as a person and, in turn, creates the person you are becoming. Everything you do affects those you love. All of life is covenant. Imbedded in the idea of prayer is a richly textured view of the world where all of life is organized around invisible bonds or covenants that knit us together. Instead of a fixed world, we live in our Father's world, a world built for divine relationships between people where, because of the Good News, tragedies become comedies and hope is born. ↗

— Paul E. Miller

#god #hope #prayer #story #life