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prayer soul devotion
The shortening of devotions starves the soul, it grows lean and faint William Wilberforce
prayer our-prayers
God punishes us mildly by ignoring our prayers and severely by answering them. Richard J. Needham
prayer people praying
Prayer must carry on our work as much as preaching; he preacheth not heartily to his people that will not pray for them. Richard Baxter
prayer creatures breaths
Prayer is the breath of the new creature.
prayer father race
Whoever in prayer can say, 'Our Father', acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind. Tryon Edwards
prayer past simple
all his prayers of the past had been simple concrete requests: God, give me a bicycle, a knife with seven blades, a box of oil paints. Only how, how, could you say something so indefinite, so meaningless as this: God, let me be loved. Truman Capote
prayer blessing earth
Our earnest prayer is that God will graciously vouchsafe prosperity, happiness, and peace to all our neighbors, and like blessings to all the peoples and powers of the earth William McKinley
prayer simple giving
We hear in these days of scientific enlightenment a great deal of discussion about the efficacy of Prayer. Many reasons are given why we should not pray. Others give reasons why we should pray. Very little is said of the reason we do pray. The reason is simple: We pray because we cannot help praying. William James
prayer essence soul
But petitional prayer is only one department of prayer; and if we take the word in the wider sense as meaning every kind of inward communion or conversation with the power recognized as divine, we can easily see that scientific criticism leaves it untouched. Prayer in this wide sense is the very soul and essence of religion.
reading sea library
We are digital archives of the African Pliocene, even of Devonian seas; walking repositories of wisdom out of the old days. You could spend a lifetime reading in this ancient library and die unsated by the wonder of it. Richard Dawkins
reading wife secret
But in reading Shakespeare and in reading about Edward de Vere, it's quite apparent that when you read these works that whoever penned this body of work was firstly well-travelled, secondly a multi-linguist and thirdly someone who had an innate knowledge of the inner workings and the mechanisms of a very secret and paranoid Elizabethan court. Edward de Vere ticks those three boxes and many more. William of Stratford gave his wife a bed when he died [his second best bed]. Rhys Ifans
reading thinking scripts
I think the part I enjoy most is reading the scripts and screening films because I'm a bookworm and a movie buff. Rebecca Eaton
reading feelings literature
I grew up in Mississippi being told it was a great place, but not feeling that. When I finally began reading seriously, literature showed me something about where I was from which was worthwhile. Richard Ford
reading writing
To write you had to read so I backed into reading.
reading book wonderful
Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful. Roald Dahl
reading next wonder
I'm wondering what to read next.
reading past years
I keep a quotes journal - of every sentence that I've wanted to remember from my reading of the past 30 years. Richard Powers
reading writing eye
The thing that makes reading and writing suspect in the eyes of the market economy is that it's not corrupted.
meditation mind moments
In meditation you experience time slowing down because you can notice more things per discreet moment and you're more open... The word 'meditation' in Sanskrit comes from the word 'familiarization' - as in familiarization with one's own mind. Richard Davidson
meditation trying attention
We are simply committing ourselves to paying attention to our life. We use meditation to help us in that attention process. We are not trying to become good meditators. We are trying to wake up. William Martin
meditation forgiving want
every time God forgives us, God is saying that God's own rules do not matter as much as the relationship that God wants to create with us. Richard Rohr
meditation december life-experience
Since learning Transcendental Meditation from Maharishi in December 1967, it has been a valuable practice which has enabled me to go through some very stressful life experiences while remaining centered. Mike Love
meditation soil pushing
Meditation is like farming... the right soil is required to grow anything, nothing will grow if the soil is polluted by striving or pushing too hard. Jon Kabat-Zinn
meditation feelings way
Meditation is not about feeling a certain way. It's about feeling the way you feel.
meditation special needs
Non-doing has nothing to do with being indolent or passive. Quite the contrary. It takes great courage and energy to cultivate non-doing, both in stillness and in activity. Nor is it easy to make a special time for non-doing and to keep at it in the face of everything in our lives which needs to be done.
meditation
Meditation is not about doing something Joko Beck
meditation feelings mind
Meditation is to be aware of what is going on in your body, in your feelings, in your mind, and in the world. Nhat Hanh