All Quotes By Tag: Prayer

“May the love we have for each other be a perfect reflection of the love God has for us.”

“We religious types, even those who detest organized religion, pray for deeper faith and a greater sense of oneness with God.”

“There is no power like purity.”

“It is Love that sustains me. Love is my Source. The apprehension of God in my human experience is Love. When I experience Love, I feel expanded, energetically and mystically.”

“You can dissociate prayers from religion if you try. It sounds little difficult and unrealistic but it can be done. You can devise your own prayers, which may not use any religious symbol or name. I have realized that being religious and being spiritual are two different ideas in eternity.”

“In this human world, the misery of the humans can only be lifted by the humans, who are courageous and conscientious enough to take real actions, instead of meekly hoping and praying for an illusory divine intervention.”

“Prayer is not escape from but escape to, and the difference is important. When you take human form, you are not choosing to live in a prison, even one of Heaven’s design. Rather, you are choosing for a time to breathe the air of conflict, and taste the bitter herbs of higher learning. Prayer is an escape back to God’s own bosom, where the soul retreats not for pity but for rest.”

“Prayer is the soul’s nursery, where hopes and dreams find sustenance, where make-believe awakens into faith proved real.”

“The real prayer is your own soul-tending. It’s not the writing that needs prayer – it’s you. You need to find the center that is still and strengthening. You need to deal with whatever issue is dogging you today, whether it’s anxiety about your teenager or resistance to the topic you are trying to write.”

“This is an assignment I’m always happy to be on, helping a hurting world through the power of prayer.”

“حين اتلو الصلاة قبل الطعام، احترس أن أقول: “يارب بارك هذا الطعام الذي سنتناوله واعطِ الجائعين خبزا.” أخشى أن يجيبني الله: “عليك أنت أن تعطيهم.” فأقول دائما: “علمنا أن نتقاسم.”

“The secret of seeing is, then the pearl of great price. If I thought he could teach me to find it and keep it forever I would stagger barefoot across a hundred deserts after any lunatic at all. But although the pearl may be found, it may not be sought. The literature of illumination reveals this above all: although it comes to those who wait for it, it is always, even to the most practiced and adept, a gift and a total surprise. I return from one walk knowing where the killdeer nests in the field by the creek and the hour the laurel blooms. I return form the same walk a day later scarcely knowing my own name. Litanies hum in my ears; my tongue flaps in my mouth. Ailinon, alleluia!”

“My prayer is an attitude of pure gratitude for having the opportunity to experience life on this earth with all its pain, heartache, worry, and turmoil; coupled with this gratitude is the thankfulness for just having the opportunity to have lived. That is fairly easy on good days but difficult when life puts rocks and boulders in the road.”

“Time and again I hear how important the darker environment is to those at our vintage-faith worship gathering. Attenders feel they can freely pray in a corner by themselves without feeling that everyone is staring at them.”

“Today I want to belong. I want to feel safe and at home. I want to be aware of what it is like simply to be, without defenses or desires. I will appreciate the flow of life for what it is-my own true self. I will notice those moments of intimacy with myself, when I feel that “I am” is enough to sustain me forever. I will lie on the grass at one with nature, expanding until my being fades into the infinite.”