Prayer is listening as well as speaking, receiving as well as asking; and its deepest mood is friendship held in reverence. So the daily prayer should end as it begins - in adoration.
We need deliberately to call to mind the joys of our journey. Perhaps we should try to write down the blessings of one day. We might begin; we could … - George Arthur Buttrick
We need deliberately to call to mind the joys of our journey. Perhaps we should try to write down the blessings of one day. We might begin; we could …
- George Arthur Buttrick
It appears that when life is broken by tragedy God shines through the breach. - George Arthur Buttrick
It appears that when life is broken by tragedy God shines through the breach.
Prayer is not a substitute for work, thinking, watching, suffering, or giving; prayer is a support for all other efforts. - George Arthur Buttrick
Prayer is not a substitute for work, thinking, watching, suffering, or giving; prayer is a support for all other efforts.
Intercession is more than specific: it is pondered: it requires us to bear on our heart the burden of those for whom we pray. - George Arthur Buttrick
Intercession is more than specific: it is pondered: it requires us to bear on our heart the burden of those for whom we pray.
For a man to argue, 'I don't go to church; I pray alone,' is no wiser than if he should say, 'I have no use for symphonies; I believe only in solo mu… - George Arthur Buttrick
For a man to argue, 'I don't go to church; I pray alone,' is no wiser than if he should say, 'I have no use for symphonies; I believe only in solo mu…
Prayer is not a vain attempt to change God's will; it is a filial desire to learn God's will and to share it. Prayer is not a substitute for work: it… - George Arthur Buttrick
Prayer is not a vain attempt to change God's will; it is a filial desire to learn God's will and to share it. Prayer is not a substitute for work: it…
Life is essentially a series of events to be lived through rather than intellectual riddles to be played with and solved. - George Arthur Buttrick
Life is essentially a series of events to be lived through rather than intellectual riddles to be played with and solved.
Prayer is listening as well as speaking, receiving as well as asking; and its deepest mood is friendship held in reverence. So the daily prayer shoul… - George Arthur Buttrick
Prayer is listening as well as speaking, receiving as well as asking; and its deepest mood is friendship held in reverence. So the daily prayer shoul…
Faith is the response of our spirits to beckonings of the eternal. - George Arthur Buttrick
Faith is the response of our spirits to beckonings of the eternal.
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