Prayer is the greatest power God has put into our hands for service - praying is harder than doing, at least I find it so, but the dynamic lies that way to advance the Kingdom.
Interpretation
Prayer is a powerful tool for serving others, often seen as more challenging than taking action.
This quote by Mary Slessor emphasizes the profound strength inherent in prayer, suggesting that praying can be even more difficult than undertaking physical actions. It highlights the belief that through prayer, one can effectively contribute to the greater good and promote spiritual growth, indicating that the true essence of advancing a cause, such as the Kingdom, lies in the commitment to prayer and its transformative power.
In practice
In a sermon on the importance of faith and action.
My life is one long daily, hourly record of answered prayer. For physical health, for mental overstrain, for guidance given marvelously, for errors and dangers averted, for enmity to the Gospel subdued, for food provided at the exact hour needed, for everything that goes to make up life and my poor service. I can testify, with a full and often wonder-stricken awe, that I believe God answers prayer.
Oh Lord, I thank Thee that I can bring these people Thy Word. But Lord, there are other villages back in the jungle where no white man has gone. They need Jesus, too. Help me reach them!
Lord, the task is impossible for me but not for Thee. Lead the way and I will follow.
Jesus intercedes for us each day. Let us pray: Lord, have mercy on me; intercede for me!
The Eucharist is the secret of my day. It gives strength and meaning to all my activities of service to the Church and to the whole world. . . . Let Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament speak to your hearts. It is he who is the true answer of life that you seek. He stays here with us: he is God with us. Seek him without tiring, welcome him without reserve, love him without interruption: today, tomorrow, forever.
We pray when there's nothing else we can do; Jesus wants us to pray before we do anything at all.
I have no other wish in this world but to find light and joy and peace through Hinduism.
I saw that giving even all my life to God (supposing it possible to do this and go no further) would profit me nothing unless I gave my heart, yea, all my heart, to Him.
Help me, Lord, to remember that religion is not to be confined to the church... nor exercised only in prayer and meditation, but that every where I am in Thy Presence
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