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- Nov 07, 2020
Prayer Quotes
On faith, ritual and quiet persistence.
One quote takes an unusually historical angle, noting that ending a prayer with Amen actually invokes an ancient Egyptian deity linked to completion. A much simpler line calls prayer the single most important thing the speaker does each day.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never set out to write prayers at all. But there was a span of time when I didn't find it easy to pray, but, when I went to write one of the things I had to write, a prayer would come.
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The more I get connected to my own breath and my own yogic experience and my own prayer and my own idea, the ideas that have existed for so long - that we all belong to each other and we could live a deeper spiritual existence - the more I get connected to that, the more I shun this world.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do believe in the power of prayer.
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Reading is a form of prayer, a guided meditation that briefly makes us believe we're someone else, disrupting the delusion that we're permanent and at the center of the universe. Suddenly (we're saved!) other people are real again, and we're fond of them.
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Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.
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It is a common temptation of Satan to make us give up the reading of the Word and prayer when our enjoyment is gone; as if it were of no use to read the Scriptures when we do not enjoy them, and as if it were no use to pray when we have no spirit of prayer.
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The joy which answers to prayer give, cannot be described; and the impetus which they afford to the spiritual life is exceedingly great.
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Let no one profess to trust in God, and yet lay up for future wants, otherwise the Lord will first send him to the hoard he has amassed, before He can answer the prayer for more.
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To ascertain the Lord's will, we ought to use scriptural means. Prayer, the word of God, and His Spirit should be united together. We should go to the Lord repeatedly in prayer, and ask Him to teach us by His Spirit through His word.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anything large enough for a wish to light upon, is large enough to hang a prayer upon.
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- Nov 07, 2020