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PRAYER
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"Prayer is as necessary for the soul as air is for the body. The fruit of prayer is vision; the action of prayer is love."
Summons to Life, Contemporary Christian Insights
(Martin Israel)
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"Make us find ourselves again in our love for you, brotherly earth!" Minas Dimakis (1916-1980), Greek poet and essayist
The Way of The Earth, Encounters with Nature in Ancient and Contemporary Thought
(T. C. McLuhan)
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"I learned to pray, not because I had adequately argued out prayer's rationality, but because I desperately needed help from a Power greater than my own. I learned that God, much more than a theological proposition, is an immediately available Resource." Harry Emerson Fosdick
The Mind of Jesus
(William Barclay)
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"Any hand that is not sometimes folded in prayer will in the end turn into the predatory claw."
Origins of the Sacred
(Dudley Young)
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"The best way to pray is: stop. Let prayer pray within you, whether you know it or not. This means a deep awareness of your true inner identity." Thomas Merton
Centering Prayer, Renewing an Ancient Christian Prayer Form
(M. Basil Pennington, O.C.S.O.)
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"As you pray, feel a Oneness, a unity in all life where there is no separation, for all is One."
The Spirit of Findhorn
(Eileen Caddy)
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"The power of prayer lies in its ability to soften and attune us."
Alchemy, The Art of Transformation
(Jay Ramsay)
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"The Shahadah is the Islamic prayer of unity: 'La illaha illa Ilah hu' (Nothing exists save God). It is like the Jewish prayer: 'Hear, O Israel, the Lord thy God, the Lord is One.'"
One River, Many Wells: Wisdom Springing from World Faiths
(Matthew Fox)
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"Prayer is about strengthening the heart. 'Courage' comes from the French words for a large heart, and that is what prayer is about."
Wrestling with the Prophets, Essays on Creation Spirituality and Everyday Life
(Matthew Fox)
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"To labor is to pray." St. Benedict of Nursia (480?-554), Patriarch of Western monks, motto of the Benedictine Order
The Great Thoughts
(George Seldes, compiler)
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"We pray because we can stretch beyond our narcissism, knowing that our life is a grace and that the mysteries we are born into ask for acknowledgment."
The Soul's Religion, Cultivating a Profoundly Spiritual Way of Life
(Thomas Moore)
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"Will the Old Mother who guides the birds and animals, and teaches them to care for their young, and to build the simple nests and dens of their kind, will She remain silent to the need of the noblest of her creatures?"
Healing: The Divine Art
(Manly P. Hall)
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"Every prayer is heard in some way that is incomprehensible to our minds."
Entering the Castle: An Inner Path to God and Your Soul
(Caroline Myss)
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"Through prayer we can work miracles in our lives. We have so much more power than we are using yet – to heal disease, repair relationships, reconcile nations, protect our cities, and transform our world."
The Gift of Change, Spiritual Guidance for a Radically New Life
(Marianne Williamson)
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"Commune with God daily, whatever your religion or spiritual path. With a tremendous intensity of love, make contact with the divine spark that dwells within your heart. Send that love out to the world."
Saint Germain's Prophecy for the New Millennium
(Elizabeth Clare Prophet)
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"Hildegard of Bingen teaches that prayer is essentially the inhaling and exhaling of the one breath of the universe."
The Coming of the Cosmic Christ
(Matthew Fox)
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"Where people are praying for peace the cause of peace is being strengthened by their very act of prayer, for they are themselves becoming immersed in the spirit of peace." John Macquarrie, 'The Concept of Peace'
Macmillan Dictionary of Religious Quotations
(Margaret Pepper, editor)
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"Prayer takes the mind out of the narrowness of self-interest, and enables us to see the world in the mirror of the holy." Abraham Joshua Heschel, 'The Essence of Spiritual Living'
Macmillan Dictionary of Religious Quotations
(Margaret Pepper, editor)
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"Prayer is the act by which man opens himself to the total values for wholeness that exist in each situational moment of his life." Elizabeth B. Howes and Sheila Moon, 'Man the Choicemaker'
The Choice Is Always Ours
(Dorothy B. Phillips, Chief Editor)
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"Pray for all government leaders – that they will make decisions consistent with love, consistent with life. Your prayers and goodwill have their effect….Bless everything that lives and shares life with you upon this planet….Pray for everyone."
A Course in Miracles - A Gift For All Mankind
(Tara Singh)
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"Wherever you turn yourselves to pray, there is the Face of Allah." Quran, 2:109
Mysticism and Ecumenism
(Robley Edward Whitson)
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"According to the principle of 'ask and you will receive', spiritual food is freely available to us all from within ourselves."
The Alternative Gospel
(John Baldock)
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"The practices of prayer and meditation help us touch the most valuable seeds that are within us, and they put us in contact with the ground of our being."
Living Buddha, Living Christ
(Thich Nhat Hanh)
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"Meister Eckhart describes prayer at its best as a sinking down into 'God's dearest will', a lovely phrase which of course can be taken naively but might also be understood as the affectionate and benign source of our lives."
The Soul's Religion, Cultivating a Profoundly Spiritual Way of Life
(Thomas Moore)
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"Do not presume that your prayers are not answered, because they are. It is up to you to receive and listen. Practice silence and contemplation as a means of continually attuning to the one clear voice of the divine that is present within your soul."
Entering the Castle: An Inner Path to God and Your Soul
(Caroline Myss)
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