#pray

I knelt a mortal; I rose an immortal. ↗

— Yann Martel

#elevation-after-prayers #life-of-pi #praying #salah #life

The great tragedy of life is not unanswered prayer but unoffered prayer. ↗

— KB Meyer

#prayer #life

If heathen prayers were indeed the best of all, then mine should count big time. ↗

— Will Schwalbe

#life

Now you are walking in Paris all alone in the crowd As herds of bellowing buses drive by Love's anguish tightens your throat As if you were never to be loved again If you lived in the old days you would enter a monastery You are ashamed when you discover yourself reciting a prayer You make fun of yourself and like the fire of Hell your laughter crackles The sparks of your laugh gild the depths of your life It's a painting hanging in a dark museum And sometimes you go and look at it close up ↗

— Guillaume Apollinaire

#city #crowd #laughing #laughter #love

We have an allergic reaction to dependency, but this is the state of the heart most necessary for a praying life. A need heart is a praying heart. Dependency is the heartbeat of prayer. ↗

— Paul E. Miller

#life

The kingdom comes when Jesus becomes king of your life. But it has to be your life. ↗

— Paul E. Miller

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My prayer life IS my life. ↗

— Mel Blackaby

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Allow yourself to flow in the silence, heal in the silence, love in the silence, regain your freedom in the silence, find your happiness, sense of self and enlightenment in the silence.” - Excerpt from Silence, in the book the Hidden Path. ↗

— Inshan Meahjohn

#god #grace #inspiration #inspirational-quotes #light

You will remember how, as a schoolboy, I had destroyed my religious life by a vicious subjectivism which made 'realizations' the aim of prayer; turning away from God to seek states of mind, and trying to produce those states of mind by 'maistry'. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#prayer #subjectivism #life

In order to pray like a child, you might need to unlearn the nonpersonal, nonreal praying that you've been taught. ↗

— Paul E. Miller

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