#pray

Sometimes we intentionally blind ourselves. We find poor substitutes for the things we lack: friends, family, love. And that substitute becomes almost addictive, to the point where we continue to try to turn it into the real thing, or convince ourselves it’s better than having nothing in its stead. But, Kitty, when you do find the real thing, you’ll wonder why you ever settled for anything less. ↗

— Caitlin Elyse

#heaven-prays-hell-preys #immortal-wars #family

Hadn’t retired reporter Stan warned him of how protective Cosimo was of his granddaughters? What if the Carusos had discovered his identity and wanted to rub him out as they’d rubbed out his father? Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. ↗

— Christie Ridgway

#hilarious #prayer #death

Prayer is like water - something you can't imagine has the strength or power to do any good, and yet give it time and it can change the lay of the land. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#prayer #change

I've been praying to Jesus and the Holy Ghost for patience and I have also mentioned that it would help if I did not have frizzy hair. ↗

— Margaret Sartor

#humor #prayer #love

Death is God when love is mine. Prayer preys when we’re divine ↗

— Munia Khan

#god #love #prayer #death

If you've never tried drugs, don't. And if you have, pray. ↗

— Brad Renfro

#pray #tried #you

This perpetual hurry of business and company ruins me in soul if not in body. More solitude and earlier hours! ↗

— William Wilberforce

#prayer #business

الخليفة في الأرض، قد يكون، رأس الدولة، لكن ذلك لا علاقة له بمنصبه هناك، وإنما بما يفعله هناك، بالقيم التي تتحكم فيه بينما هو هناك، هل هو ملتصق بقيم الاستخلاف؟.. هل هو واعٍ في مهمته في الأرض؟ هل يؤدي ما يؤديه وقد وضع هذا نصب عينيه، قبل منصبه ؟ ↗

— أحمد خيري العمري

#change

I look at the Augusteum,and I think that perhaps my life has not actually been so chaotic, after all. It is merely this world that is chaotic, bringing changes to us all that nobody could have anticipated. The Augusteum warns me to not to get attached to any obsolete ideas about who I am, what I represent, whom I belong to, or what function I may once have intended to serve. Yesterday I might have been a glorious monument to somebody, true enough--but tomorrow I could be a fireworks depository. Even in the Eternal City, says the silent Augusteum, one must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#eat-pray-love #elizabeth-gilbert #life #change

And shall I pray Thee change Thy will, my Father, Until it be according unto mine? But, no, Lord, no, that never shall be, rather I pray Thee blend my human will with Thine. I pray Thee hush the hurrying, eager longing, I pray Thee soothe the pangs of keen desire— See in my quiet places, wishes thronging— Forbid them, Lord, purge, though it be with fire. ↗

— Amy Carmichael

#god-s-will #prayer #change