“Inhale, and God approaches you. Hold the inhalation, and God remains with you. Exhale, and you approach God. Hold the exhalation, and surrender to God.”
Question for Meditation: What does your prayer look like?
Month: January 2017
“Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.”
Question for Meditation: What do you pray for?
“When the heart is at ease, the body is healthy.”
Question for Meditation: What puts your heart at ease?
“Why must people kneel down to pray? If I really wanted to pray I’ll tell you what I’d do. I’d go out into a great big field all alone or in the deep, deep woods and I’d look up into the sky—up—up—up—into that lovely blue sky that looks as if there was no end to its blueness. And then I’d just feel a prayer.”
Question for Meditation: What spaces are sacred to you?
“I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.”
Question for Meditation: What do you do when you feel overwhelmed?
“I waited patiently for the Lord; he inclined to me and heard my cry.”
Question for Meditation: When have you had to wait for the Lord?
“But whenever you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.”
Question for Meditation: Where can you go today to pray in quiet?
“Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts.”
Question for Meditation: How do you view prayer?
“Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.”
Question for Meditation: Where is your heart when you pray?
“The greatest tragedy of life is not unanswered prayer, but unoffered prayer.”
Question for Meditation: What prayers do you not say?
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