#prayer

Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them. ↗

— Mahalia Jackson

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If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine o mother o' mine. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#dammed #i #know #make #me

I think the Lord's Prayer is a very powerful prayer. And the prayer of St. Francis. ↗

— Dennis Kucinich

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Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation the source of strength is one's self. When one prays he goes to a source of strength greater than his own. ↗

— Chiang Kai-shek

#greater #his #meditation #more #own

Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why he should grant this, or that; he knows best what is good for us. ↗

— John Selden

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Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion. ↗

— Michael Shermer

#celestial #god #lab #leading #makes

Rather than set aside daily time for prayer, I pray constantly and spontaneously about everything I encounter on a daily basis. When someone shares something with me, I'll often simply say, 'let's pray about this right now.' ↗

— Thomas Kinkade

#aside #basis #constantly #daily #daily basis

These two things are almost all I want, but unfortunately, neither one is my strong suit. I am very strong on blame, and wish this were one of God's values, but trust, surrender? Letting go, forgiveness? Maybe just after a period of prayer, but then when the mood passes and real life rears its ugly head again? Not so much. I hate this, the fact that life is usually Chutes and Ladders, with no guaranteed gains. I cannot will myself into having these qualities, so I have to pray for them more often, if I want to be happy. I have to create the habit, just as I had to do with daily writing, and flossing. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#forgiveness #happy #letting-go #prayer #surrender

Mental prayer is, as I see it, simply a friendly intercourse and frequent solitary conversation with Him who, as we know, loves us. ↗

— Teresa of Ávila

#life

I brought Sammy inside and put him to bed. Said his prayer with him. “‘Now I lay me down to sleep…’” To me, just random noise. Gibberish. I wasn’t sure exactly what it was, but I felt that, when it came to God, there was a broken promise in there somewhere. ↗

— Rick Yancey

#apocalypse #cassie #fiction #god #horror