The primary purpose of prayer is not to get something, but to know Someone..
When every hope is gone, 'when helpers fail and comforts flee,' I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where. Supplication, worship, praye….
The trappings of a religious cult tend to fall into candlelit ceremonies and robes and group chanting and singing and prayer..
There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live..
Swallows and Amazons for-ever!.
You must ignore the bad and adopt the good..
Prayer is not a monologue. It speaks to God and to the community. In the last analysis, religion is not what goes on inside a soul. It is what goes o….
Do not be astonished at anything, even happiness..
Emotionally I'm about 13..
I've been indicted for rules that don't even exist..
No one can tell me that I'm doing wrong..
Hope changes everything, doesn't it?.
A lot of the bunkering is designed more to save you than it is to penalize you..
I have achieved an inner freedom..
Now are the days, of humblest prayer, When consciences to God lie bare, And mercy most delights to spare. Oh hearken when we cry. Now is the season, ….
It is precisely because we cannot see God that we can only know that our prayer is valid by the effect it has upon our lives, by the way we treat our….
To pray is to listen, to move through my own chattering to God, to that place where I can be silent and listen to what God may have to say..
I'm always pleased with my work. Absolutely..
To search for the old is to understand the new..
The candidate was required to prepare himself by confession, fasting, and passing the night in prayer..
When you are through with the blues, you've got nothing to rest on..