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prayer heart important
It's more important to put the own heart in the prayer than to put other's words with nothing of the own heart. Mahatma Gandhi
prayer way intercession
Prayer is the way the life of God is nourished. Oswald Chambers
prayer trying answers
Never make the blunder of trying to forecast the way God is going to answer your prayer.
prayer mean son
When a man is born from above, the life of the Son of God is born in him, and he can either starve that life or nourish it. Prayer is the way the life of God is nourished. Our ordinary views of prayer are not found in the New Testament. We look upon prayer as a means of getting things for ourselves; the Bible's idea of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself.
prayer father needs
Ask God for what you want, but you cannot ask if you are not asking for a right thing. When you draw near to God, you cease from asking for things."Your Father knows what things you have need of, before you ask him." Then, why ask? That you may get to know Him.
prayer father giving
Pray because you have a Father, not because it quietens you, and give Him time to answer.
prayer silence grace
God's silences are His answers. If we only take as answers those that are visible to our senses, we are in a very elementary condition of grace.
prayer practice drawing
Prayer is the practice of drawing on the grace of God. Don't say, "I will endure this until I can get away and pray." Pray now - draw on the grace of God in your moment of need. Prayer is the most normal and useful thing; it is not simply a reflex action of your devotion to God. We are very slow to learn to draw on God's grace through prayer.
prayer exercise drawing
Prayer is the exercise of drawing on the grace of God.
silence riding aurora
She was riding a bear! And the Aurora was swaying above them in golden arcs and loops, and all around was the bitter Arctic cold and the immense silence of the North. Philip Pullman
silence hazards useless
It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few. Pythagoras
silence mountain spirituality
You are all searching for the silence of the mountain. But you're looking for something outside. This silence is accessible to you right now, inside the center of your own being. Ramana Maharshi
silence dying trying
The dead are silent because they live, just as we chatter so loudly to try to make ourselves forget that we are dying. Their silence is really their call to me, the assurance of their immortal love for me. Karl Rahner
silence matter faults
It is but a small merit to observe silence, but it is a grave fault to speak of matters on which we should be silent. Ovid
silence movement individual
Individuals bearing witness cannot do the work of social movements, but they can break a corrosive and demoralizing silence. Ellen Willis
silence sides communion
Deepest communion with God is beyond words, on the other side of silence. Madeleine L'Engle
silence lambs partners
When Silence of the Lambs did well commercially it was more than anything. My partner Ed Saxon and I were just so relieved that finally we had made a movie that had made some money! Jonathan Demme
silence democracy information
The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it. Kate Adie