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Let us not take what we eat for granted; let us view our meals as an opportunity to give our Lord praise. ↗

— Dillon Burroughs

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When we link our eating and our prayer and begin to see food as part of a much bigger picture, rather than the focal point of our entire lives, we reshape the way we think, the way we act, and the way we interact. ↗

— Mary DeTurris Poust

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Even if you can’t be totally mindful at every meal, if you can say a blessing, silently if necessary, or offer up a prayer for someone, something beyond yourself and your food, the prayer helps to transform eating into something that affects not only our hunger at that moment but the greater world. ↗

— Mary DeTurris Poust

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Obedience, fasting, and prayer are laughed at, yet only through them lies the way to real true freedom. I cut off my superfluous and unnecessary desires, I subdue my proud and wanton will and chastise it with obedience, and with God's help I attain freedom of spirit and with it spiritual joy. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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I am unable to believe in a God susceptible to prayer. I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits, and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

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The only difference between a wish and a prayer is that you're at the mercy of the universe for the first, and you've got some help with the second. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

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Prayer is beyond any question the highest activity of the human soul. Man is at his greatest and highest when upon his knees he comes face to face with God. ↗

— D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

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The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. ↗

— Georges Bernanos

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Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.'" Moira smiled as she quoted the ancient sage, then shrugged. "It made sense to me. After that, I started laying my problems and needs before God and asking for grace and guidance and whatever other virtues he thought I needed. ↗

— Irene Hannon

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Prayer is not mere wishing. It is asking – with a will. . . . It is energy. We turn to an active Giver; therefore we go into action. ↗

— P.T. Forsyth

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