Compromise, while at times morally necessary or at least justifiable, is more often only the first permission for a person (or society) to begin a long downhill descent.
Dennis PragerRead
Prayer is not asking God to do something, it's asking God to help YOU do something
Interpretation
Prayer is about seeking guidance and strength rather than requesting direct intervention from God.
This quote by Dennis Prager emphasizes that prayer should not be seen as merely a means to ask God for favors or solutions to our problems. Instead, it is a personal request for assistance in navigating our own challenges and making the right choices in life, highlighting the importance of self-empowerment and action in conjunction with our faith.
In practice
In a speech about personal growth, you might quote this to emphasize the importance of taking action in one's life.
Compromise, while at times morally necessary or at least justifiable, is more often only the first permission for a person (or society) to begin a long downhill descent.
If _x000D_ we continue to teach about tolerance and intolerance _x000D_ instead _x000D_ of good and evil, we will end up with tolerance of _x000D_ evil.
Compassion without wisdom is dangerous. It's what enables people to support the 'underdog,' even if the underdog is evil
If you equate happiness with success, you will never achieve the amount of success necessary to make you happy.
To posit the existence of a Creator requires only reason. To posit the existence of a good God requires faith.
Whatever one does for a living, three questions need to be confronted before it is too late: What really matters to me? What price do my spouse and kids pay for my career success? What price does my soul pay?
Keep your life in its constant contact with God that his surprising power may break out on the right hand and on the left. Always be in a state of expectancy, and see that you leave room for God to come in as he likes.
Precisely where I feel my poverty is where I discover God's blessing.
To converse with You, O King of glory, no third person is needed, You are always ready in the Sacrament of the Altar to give audience to all. All who desire You always find You there, and converse with You face to face
Prayer should be the means by which I, at all times, receive all that I need, and, for this reason, be my daily refuge, my daily consolation, my daily joy, my source of rich and inexhaustible joy in life.
Prayer is no fitful, short-lived thing. It is no voice crying unheard and unheeded in the silence. It is a voice which goes into God's ear, and it lives as long as God's ear is open to holy pleas, as long as God's heart is alive to holy things.
I discovered a version of the sinner's prayer that increased my faith far more than the one that I had said years earlier...In this version, there were no formulas, no set phrases that promised us safe passage across the abyss. There was only our tattered trust that the Spirit who had given us life would not leave us in the wilderness without offering us life again.
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