"You are my rock and my fortress; therefore, for Your name's sake, lead me and guide me." Psalm 31:3
"God speaks to those who take time to listen and He listens to those who take time to pray." ~Anon
“God understands our prayers even when we can’t find the words to say them.” ~Anon
"Help us, this and every day,
To live more nearly as we pray."
~John Keble
"Grant, O Lord, that I may be like a fire that illumines and warms, like a fountain that takes away thirst, like a tree that shelters and protects." ~Hindu Prayer
A Prayer for You..."A mother prays that her child approach the world with wide open arms like the wings of the butterfly." ~Family Friends Poem
May your precious soul be comforted by a blanket of divine love.
I call upon the angels to watch over you from the blessed heavens above.
May God hold you in safety, so you can release your worries and fear.
Let whatever you’re going through be just a reminder of what you hold dear.
~Robert Clancy
"God is the best listener, you don't have to shout nor cry out loud because He hears even the silent prayer of a sincere heart." ~Anon
"God likes to see His people shut up to this, that there is no hope but in prayer. Herein lies the church's power against the world." ~Andrew Bonar
"God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede." ~Oswald Chambers
"God's Word says we can have confidence that when we pray, He hears us and we have the petitions we desire of Him." ~LaVerne Hayes Harris, author, Prayers of The Righteous, May 11, 2016
"All action is prayer. All trees are desire-fulfilling. All water is the Ganga. All land is Varanasi. Love everything." ~Neem Karoli Baba
"All that true prayer seeks is God Himself, for with Him we get all we need." ~The Kneeling Christian
"As you walk upon the sacred earth, treat each step as a prayer." ~Black Elk
"Beware of the prayers of the poor who are victims of injustice, for there is no curtain between them, and the Almighty." ~Anon
"Change in the world comes about through action rather than prayer alone." ~The 14th Dalai Lama
"Do you know what prayer is? It is not begging God for this and that. The first thing we have to do is to get you beggars to quit begging until a little faith moves in your souls." ~John G. Lake
"Every dawn is a blessing in prayer." ~Preston Johnson
"Every day is a story of patience, perseverance and faith, since every day we are faced with an unknown tomorrow, uncertain fate and unsure future.… Let's conquer every day with optimism grounded on prayer…" ~Diary of an Artist
"Every positive thought is a silent prayer which will change your life." ~Bryant McGill
"Every step you take should be a prayer. And if every step you take is a prayer then you will always be walking in a sacred manner." ~Anon
"Happy is the person who learns to wait as he prays and never loses his patience, for God's time is the best time." ~The Bible
"Having a life time of prayer, talking to God become natural as breathing...it's the presence of God ... moment by moment reality" ~Anon
"Healing Prayer: May the Lord give you enough faith and hope to help you find the light on the dark days you can’t change and enough love to become that light on the days you can." ~Robert Clancy
"I am persuaded that we are all more deficient in a spirit of prayer than in any other grace. God loves importunate prayer so much that He will not give us much blessing without it." ~Adoniram Judson
"I believe in prayer. It is the best way to draw strength from heaven." ~H. S.
"I have so much to do that I spend several hours in prayer before I am able to do it." ~John Wesley
"I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer." ~Martin Luther
"I prayed so much that I turned into prayer." ~Rumi
“If during a prayer, the body does not exert itself, and the heart does not experience repentance, it is not yet a fully ripened fruit, because such a prayer is - without soul” ~Isaac the Syrian, a famous Orthodox Christian saint and ascetic (on Russian Faith)
“If every eight year old in the world is taught meditation, we will eliminate violence from the world within one generation.” – Dalai Lama
"If you are sick, fast and pray; if the language is hard to learn, fast and pray; if the people will not hear you, fast and pray, if you have nothing to eat, fast and pray." ~Frederick Franson
"If you only say one prayer in a day make it 'Thank You'." ~Rumi
"If your day is hemmed in with prayers, it is less likely to come unraveled." ~Anon
"In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart." ~John Bunyan
"Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?" ~Corrie Ten Boom
"It is true that a prayer that comes from the heart can move mountains, it increases your Faith, and brings you closer to God." ~Rebecca Small
"It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as welł as pray." ~Aesop
"Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element in prayer." ~E. M. Bounds
"Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart." ~Ruth Bell Graham (1920-2007)
“Let every step you take upon the earth be as a prayer.” ~Black Elk
"Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good." ~Maya Angelou
"Let's be women who storm the gates of Heaven with prayers upon prayers." ~Wendy Pope ( Ephesians 6:18)
"Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them." ~Rabindranath Tagore
"Love is seeing God in the person next to us, and meditation is seeing God within." ~Ravi Shankar
"Many of us have inherited great risks from our parents - the bank account of their personal faith and family prayers." ~Nels F.S Fere
"Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise our persons; but they are helpless against our prayers." ~J. Sidlow Baxter
"Modelling a vibrant prayer life to your children and praying daily with your children is the best present you can ever give them." ~Anon
"Music is a form of prayer, uniting people everywhere. Transcending language, time and race - rhythm building at a pace will transform any place into a holy, sacred space." ~Joanne Fink
"My heroes in life are ordinary. Waking up each day and dealing with the ordinary challenges of life takes extraordinary courage. I celebrate the countless many who show grace and humour while tired and anxious. They leap into the unknown with children, worries and unvoiced problems. They still smile and laugh. They pray and hope. ... these people – us."~Pilgrim, Red Bubble
"My prayer today... is that we would wake up to what is happening around us. That we would be ready and doing what we need to do. Prayer is totally vital. Words don't change hearts but prayer can change anything!" ~Cam Richmond
"No Man can do a great and enduring work of God, who is not a man of prayer, and no man can be a man of prayer who does not give much time to praying." ~E M Bounds
"Nothing lies beyond the reach of prayer except that which lies outside the will of God." ~R.G. Lee
"O, let the place of secret prayer become to me the most beloved spot on earth." ~Andrew Murray
“Often the answer to our prayer does not come while we’re on our knees, but while we’re on our feet serving the Lord and serving those around us.” –Dieter F. Uchtdorf
"Oftentimes men pray to the Father in Christ's name, but do not abide in Him, that is, they take His name into their mouths and on their lips, but not into their hearts and lives." ~Sadhu Sundar Singh
"One does not need to fast for days and meditate for hours at a time to experience the sense of sublime mystery which constantly envelops us. All one need do is to notice intelligently, if even for a brief moment, a blossoming tree, a forest flooded with autumn colors, an infant smiling." ~Simon Greenberg
"Our ordinary views of prayer are not found in the New Testament. We look upon prayer as a means for getting something for ourselves; the Bible idea of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself." ~Oswald Chambers
"Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us." ~Socrates
"Pray, love, teach by word and example. Your little place is not a steppingstone to greatness. It is greatness." ~David Roper
"Pray more with your heart and less with your brain." ~B. A. Kipfer
"Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan." ~John Bunyan
"Pray silently with simplicity every day to stay cool and calm in mind, composed and collected in heart; courageous and connected to own soul, to lay the way for a peaceful life." ~The Lovely Thoughts
"Pray to understand what man has forgotten." ~Lumbee
"Pray with a sincere and simple heart, and your prayers will be heard." ~Ramakrishna
"Prayer breaks all bars, dissolves all chains, opens all prisons, and widens all straits by which God's saints have been held." ~E. M. Bounds
"Prayer clear the mist and brings back peace to the soul. Every morning, every evening, let the heart sing O Beloved! There's no reality but you." ~Rumi
"Prayer does not fit us for the greater work, prayer is the greater work." ~Oswald Chambers
“Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.” ~E. Stanley Jones
"Prayer is an act if kindness that everybody needs. It costs nothing but it creates much." ~Dhenz Dancel
"Prayer is an essential tool for us to talk with God and to build a closer relationship with Him, so we can become more like our Father." ~Douglas S Winnail
"Prayer is and remains always a native and deepest impulse of the soul of man." ~ Thomas Carlyle
"Prayer is in all things, in all gestures." ~Mother Teresa
"Prayer is life passionately wanting, wishing, desiring God's triumph. Prayer is life striving and toiling everywhere and always for that ultimate victory." ~G. Campbell Morgan
"Prayer is not a 'spare wheel' that you pull out when in trouble, but it is a 'steering wheel' that directs the right path throughout." ~THE LOVELY THOUGHTS
"Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action." ~Mohandas Gandhi
"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." ~Mahatma Gandhi
“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.” ~Blessed Mother Teresa
"Prayer is not given us as a burden to be borne or an irksome duty to fulfill, but to be a joy and power to which there is no limit." ~The Kneeling Christian
"Prayer is often a wonderful revealer of the heart." ~Shermaine Y. Sanders
"Prayer is our pathway not only to divine protection, but also to a personal, intimate relationship with God." ~ Shirley Dobson
"Prayer is simply a heartfelt conversation between God and his child." ~Max Lucado
"Prayer is such an ordinary, everyday, mundane thing. Certainly, people who pray are no more saints than the rest of us. Rather, they are people who want to share a life with God, to love and be loved, to speak and to listen, to work and to be at rest in the presence of God." ~Roberta Bondi
“Prayer is the best armor against all trials.” ~Anon
"Prayer is the cure for a confused mind, a weary soul, and a broken heart." ~Care Joy
"Prayer is the cry of faith to the ear of mercy." ~Hannah Moore
"Prayer is the cure of a confused mind, a weary soul, and a broken heart." ~Anon
"Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening." ~Mahatma Gandhi
"Prayer is the mortar that holds our house together." ~Mother Teresa
"Prayer is the voice of faith, trusting that God knows and cares." ~Our Daily Bread
"Prayer is the way to open ourselves to God, and the way in which He shows us our unstable hearts and begins to strengthen them." ~Teresa of Avila
"Prayer is the wing wherewith the soul flies to heaven and meditation the eye wherewith we see God." ~ Ambrose of Milan
"Prayer is when you talk to God; meditation is when you listen to God." ~Anon
"Prayer means launching out of the heart toward God; a cry of grateful love from the crest of joy or the trough of despair; it is a vast, supernatural force that opens out my heart, and binds me close to Jesus." ~St. Therese of Lisieux
"Prayer should become as natural as breathing." ~Our Daily Bread
"Prayer unites the soul to God, for although the soul may always be like God in nature and substance, it is often unlike Him in condition." ~Julian of Norwich (1342-1413), British Christian
"Prayers would not let you hate or make others angry." ~Anon
"Praying is a solemn and individual encounter with God. It is a face to face and heart to heart talk with Him where we are able to express our love, adoration, and thanks. No printed words in any prayer book can replace it." ~Emilio Laxamana Aguinaldo
"Praying is not about asking; it's about listening ... It is just opening your eyes to see what was there all along." Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche
"Praying is sometimes not the only thing that we can do to help those we love, but in many cases it is the best thing that we can do for them." ~Mountain Wisdom
"Protecting your heart with prayer: When we really get serious about prayer, the trigger is usually desperation, not duty." ~David Jeremiah
"Satan laughs at our toiling, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray." ~The Kneeling Christian
"She maybe quiet, but she's a warrior and her prayers can move mountains." ~Native Americans
“Some of my earliest and fondest memories of my mother are of her kneeling at the side of per bed every night and praying. As a child, I would always get very close to her as she prayed. I would put my ear as close as I could to her mouth and try my best to hear what she was saying to God, but I never could make out the words. Today, being married to an addict myself, I'm pretty sure I know exactly what she was praying.” ~Barbara Bice, Just Right
"Some people pray just to pray and some people pray to know God." ~Andrew Murray
"Sometimes our prayers may seem to have been unanswered. But often, if we wait, we find they have been answered after all - though not in the way we had expected." ~Francis Gay, TFBFG 1979
"Spend time in prayer and quiet contemplation. Things have a way of revealing themselves when you’re listening to God." ~Ging Mathers
"Tears are prayers too. They travel to God when we can't speak." ~Anon
"That which brings the praying soul near to God is humility of heart. That which gives wings to prayer is lowliness of mind." ~Edward McKendree Bounds
"The best prayer is humility put into practice." ~Leah C. Dancel
"The best reason to pray is that God is really there. In praying, our unbelief gradually starts to melt. God moves smack into the middle of even an ordinary day ... Prayer is a matter of keeping at it... Thunderclaps and lightning flashes are very unlikely. It is well to start small and quietly." ~Emilie Griffin
"The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays." ~Søren Kierkegaard
"The greatest prayer is patience." ~Buddha (Siddharta Gautama)
"The highest form of prayer comes from the depths of a humble heart." ~Doreen Love (May 24, 2020)
"The highest form of prayer comes from the depths of a humble heart." ~Our Daily Bread
"The kind of prayer God desires flows out of a humble evaluation of our own sinful hearts." ~Anne Cetas
"The Ministry of Prayer, if it be anything worthy of the Name, is a ministry of ardor, a ministry of unwearied and intense longing after God and His holiness." ~E. M. Bounds
"The most important people today are the men and women of prayer. Not those who talk about prayer, nor those who say they believe in prayer, but those who take time to pray." ~Vesta Mangun
"The only power that God will yield to is that of prayer." ~Leonard Ravenhill
"The PRAYERS of your PARENTS is that Invisible Hand that saves the day." ~Anon
"The secret of all failure is our failure in secret prayer." ~The Kneeling Christian
"The secret of praying is praying in secret." ~Leonard Ravenhill
"The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war." ~Douglas MacArthur.
"The things you take for granted, someone else is praying for." ~Anon
"The value of constant prayer is not that He will hear us, but that WE WILL HEAR HIM." ~William McGill
"The word of God is the food by which prayer is nourished and made strong." ~E. M. Bounds
"There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees." ~Victor Hugo
"There is a mighty lot of difference between saying prayers and praying." ~John G. Lake
"There is never a teardrop that God doesn't see. He knows when a sparrow falls from a tree. There is never a moment when God doesn't care, never a time when He won't hear our prayers." ~Beauty in Life
"Two places are most valuable in this world: The nicest place is to be in someone's thoughts and the safest place is to be in someone's prayers." ~Anon
"Walking with God down the avenue of prayer we acquire something of His likeness, and unconsciously we become witnesses to others of His beauty and His grace." ~E. M. Bounds
"We are filled with the Holy Spirit by faith alone. However, true prayer is one way of expressing your faith." ~Katherine Keher, Angel Stories and Miracles
"We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties." ~Oswald Chambers
"We lean to our own understanding, or we bank on service and do away with prayer, and consequently by succeeding in the external we fail in the eternal, because in the eternal we succeed only by prevailing prayer." ~Oswald Chambers
"What God gives in answer to our prayers will always be the thing we most urgently need, and it will always be sufficient." ~Elisabeth Elliot
"When a Christian shuns fellowship with other Christians, the devil smiles. When he stops studying the Bible, the devil laughs. When he stops praying, the devil shouts for joy." ~Corrie Ten Boom
"When darkness falls, silence is everywhere. Angels are on the way. They hear your prayers and send them to God. May they come true very soon." ~Roya Piragar
"When I can go no further, I lift my hands upward and pray knowing that my God will carry me the rest of the way." ~Mountain Wisdom
"When life knocks you down to your knees, you’re in a perfect position to pray." ~Unattributed
"When our day begins and ends in prayer, problems don't seem to loom as large." ~Francis Gay (1998)
"When the pain is deep, go deeper in prayer." ~Anon
"When the world pushes you to your knees, you are in a perfect position to pray." ~Rumi
"When we carry a burden which is a heavy load, it makes us weak and feeble and shaky that we kneel down or slump or pass out. But when God holds you, you still sustain enough strength to stay kneeling down, recompose, meditate then pray. You don't even have to say the words. He hears you through your spirit being in you." ~Leah C. Dancel, 9 July 2017
"When we pray, our hearts glow a glorious joy that lights our souls and all the world around us." ~Terri Guillemets
"When we pray, we may not see how God is working or understand how He will bring good through it all. So we have to trust Him. We relinquish our rights and let God do what is best." ~Our Daily Bread
"When we pray, we pray from the heart. By recognising God's mighty power and His great love for mankind, we are able to know that God is real." ~Rowena Caranto
"when you can't put your prayer into words, God hears your heart." ~by Millie
"When you find time on your hands, put them together in Prayer." ~Anon
"When you pray asking GOD for the rain, make sure you are preparing your field" ~From The Movie Facing the Giants via Willa Stock
"When you pray, God hears your words, but he listens to what your heart has to say." ~Mountain Wisdom
"Wherever one is is a place for prayer anytime." ~Romeo Balingcongan
“With prayer as with other gifts from God, it is not what you get that counts, it's what you do with it.” ~Anon
"You come with a cat and call it a rabbit." ~Proverb
"You pray in your distress and in your need, would that you might pray also in the fulness of your joy and your days of abundance." ~Kahlil Gibran
MEDITATIONS
"As meditation flowers, you find that on one hand truth has revealed to you all its mysteries and on the other blissfulness is showering all its treasures on you." ~Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
"At the beginning of every winter people are careful to install storm windows. These extra panes of glass protect their houses against the bitter winds. We do something very similar to protect our minds through the practice of meditation." ~Eknath Easwaran
"Enjoy simple things with total intensity. Just a cup of tea can be a deep meditation." ~Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
"If you meditate, sooner or later you will come upon love. If you meditate deeply, sooner or later you will start feeling a tremendous love arising in you that you have never known before." ~OSHO
"In meditation, you are calm and receptive. You are like an open door providing a kind of cross ventilation so that the air of divinity can move through you." ~Gurudev Shree Chitrabhanu
"Meditate every day. In the stillness, you will find your true being, you will hear the breathing of your soul - and of God." ~Neale Donald Walsch
"Meditation allows us to directly participate in our lives instead of living life as an afterthought." ~Stephen Levine
"Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing. We let our own natural capacity of healing do the work." ~Thich Nhat Hanh
"Meditation has to become your heartbeat; even when you are asleep the meditation continues like an undercurrent." ~Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
"Meditation is a flower and compassion is its fragrance." ~Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
"Meditation is a silent heart, a peaceful mind which can make life more lovable, more livable...." ~Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
"Meditation is a valuable exercise, but eventually you have to open up your eyes and look around." ~Dan Millman
"Meditation is an energy healing art that has great health benefits. Meditation is great for relaxing the mind, body, and spirit. In addition to boosting immunity to fight off harmful microorganisms, many studies have shown that meditation, mindfulness, and deep relaxation can reduce stress, improve cognitive focus, and affect emotions in positive ways." ~The Relaxed Mind
"Meditation is just a strategy to take away your personality, your thoughts, your mind, your identity with the body, and leave you absolutely alone inside, just a living fire. And once you have found your living fire, you will know all the joys and all the ecstasies that human consciousness is capable of." ~Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
"Meditation is like giving a hug to ourselves, getting in touch with that awesome reality in us." ~Paramahansa Yogananda
"Meditation is not a matter of trying to achieve ecstasy, spiritual bliss or tranquility, nor is it attempting to be a better person. It is simply the creation of a space in which we are able to expose and undo our neurotic games, our self-deceptions, our hidden fears and hopes." ~Chögyam Trungpa
"Meditation is not a means to an end. It is both the means and the end." ~Jiddhu Krishnamurti
"Meditation is not an esoteric practice; it’s not something you do only in a meditation hall or Buddhist retreat center. It can happen right in whatever activity you’re doing — while walking, in the office. It means you are there, present with calm and peace." ~Phap Dung
"Let's be women who storm the gates of Heaven with prayers upon prayers." ~Wendy Pope ( Ephesians 6:18)
"Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them." ~Rabindranath Tagore
"Life is a constant struggle. Every prayer leads you to challenge every suffering that comes your way. Nothing is the same in each moment of your life. Change is the only thing permanent that through our prayers we strive for a better change." ~Cecilia Delacerna
"Many of us have inherited great risks from our parents - the bank account of their personal faith and family prayers." ~Nels F.S Fere
"Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise our persons; but they are helpless against our prayers." ~J. Sidlow Baxter
"Modelling a vibrant prayer life to your children and praying daily with your children is the best present you can ever give them." ~Anon
"Music is a form of prayer, uniting people everywhere. Transcending language, time and race - rhythm building at a pace will transform any place into a holy, sacred space." ~Joanne Fink
"My heroes in life are ordinary. Waking up each day and dealing with the ordinary challenges of life takes extraordinary courage. I celebrate the countless many who show grace and humour while tired and anxious. They leap into the unknown with children, worries and unvoiced problems. They still smile and laugh. They pray and hope. ... these people – us."~Pilgrim, Red Bubble
"My prayer today... is that we would wake up to what is happening around us. That we would be ready and doing what we need to do. Prayer is totally vital. Words don't change hearts but prayer can change anything!" ~Cam Richmond
"No Man can do a great and enduring work of God, who is not a man of prayer, and no man can be a man of prayer who does not give much time to praying." ~E M Bounds
"Nothing lies beyond the reach of prayer except that which lies outside the will of God." ~R.G. Lee
"O, let the place of secret prayer become to me the most beloved spot on earth." ~Andrew Murray
“Often the answer to our prayer does not come while we’re on our knees, but while we’re on our feet serving the Lord and serving those around us.” –Dieter F. Uchtdorf
"Oftentimes men pray to the Father in Christ's name, but do not abide in Him, that is, they take His name into their mouths and on their lips, but not into their hearts and lives." ~Sadhu Sundar Singh
"One does not need to fast for days and meditate for hours at a time to experience the sense of sublime mystery which constantly envelops us. All one need do is to notice intelligently, if even for a brief moment, a blossoming tree, a forest flooded with autumn colors, an infant smiling." ~Simon Greenberg
"Our ordinary views of prayer are not found in the New Testament. We look upon prayer as a means for getting something for ourselves; the Bible idea of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself." ~Oswald Chambers
"Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us." ~Socrates
"Pray, love, teach by word and example. Your little place is not a steppingstone to greatness. It is greatness." ~David Roper
"Pray more with your heart and less with your brain." ~B. A. Kipfer
"Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan." ~John Bunyan
"Pray silently with simplicity every day to stay cool and calm in mind, composed and collected in heart; courageous and connected to own soul, to lay the way for a peaceful life." ~The Lovely Thoughts
"Pray to understand what man has forgotten." ~Lumbee
"Pray with a sincere and simple heart, and your prayers will be heard." ~Ramakrishna
"Prayer breaks all bars, dissolves all chains, opens all prisons, and widens all straits by which God's saints have been held." ~E. M. Bounds
"Prayer clear the mist and brings back peace to the soul. Every morning, every evening, let the heart sing O Beloved! There's no reality but you." ~Rumi
"Prayer does not fit us for the greater work, prayer is the greater work." ~Oswald Chambers
“Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.” ~E. Stanley Jones
"Prayer is an act if kindness that everybody needs. It costs nothing but it creates much." ~Dhenz Dancel
"Prayer is an essential tool for us to talk with God and to build a closer relationship with Him, so we can become more like our Father." ~Douglas S Winnail
"Prayer is and remains always a native and deepest impulse of the soul of man." ~ Thomas Carlyle
"Prayer is in all things, in all gestures." ~Mother Teresa
"Prayer is life passionately wanting, wishing, desiring God's triumph. Prayer is life striving and toiling everywhere and always for that ultimate victory." ~G. Campbell Morgan
"Prayer is not a 'spare wheel' that you pull out when in trouble, but it is a 'steering wheel' that directs the right path throughout." ~THE LOVELY THOUGHTS
"Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action." ~Mohandas Gandhi
"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." ~Mahatma Gandhi
“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.” ~Blessed Mother Teresa
"Prayer is not given us as a burden to be borne or an irksome duty to fulfill, but to be a joy and power to which there is no limit." ~The Kneeling Christian
"Prayer is often a wonderful revealer of the heart." ~Shermaine Y. Sanders
"Prayer is our pathway not only to divine protection, but also to a personal, intimate relationship with God." ~ Shirley Dobson
"Prayer is simply a heartfelt conversation between God and his child." ~Max Lucado
"Prayer is such an ordinary, everyday, mundane thing. Certainly, people who pray are no more saints than the rest of us. Rather, they are people who want to share a life with God, to love and be loved, to speak and to listen, to work and to be at rest in the presence of God." ~Roberta Bondi
“Prayer is the best armor against all trials.” ~Anon
"Prayer is the cure for a confused mind, a weary soul, and a broken heart." ~Care Joy
"Prayer is the cry of faith to the ear of mercy." ~Hannah Moore
"Prayer is the cure of a confused mind, a weary soul, and a broken heart." ~Anon
"Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening." ~Mahatma Gandhi
"Prayer is the mortar that holds our house together." ~Mother Teresa
"Prayer is the voice of faith, trusting that God knows and cares." ~Our Daily Bread
"Prayer is the way to open ourselves to God, and the way in which He shows us our unstable hearts and begins to strengthen them." ~Teresa of Avila
"Prayer is the wing wherewith the soul flies to heaven and meditation the eye wherewith we see God." ~ Ambrose of Milan
"Prayer is when you talk to God; meditation is when you listen to God." ~Anon
"Prayer means launching out of the heart toward God; a cry of grateful love from the crest of joy or the trough of despair; it is a vast, supernatural force that opens out my heart, and binds me close to Jesus." ~St. Therese of Lisieux
"Prayer should become as natural as breathing." ~Our Daily Bread
"Prayer unites the soul to God, for although the soul may always be like God in nature and substance, it is often unlike Him in condition." ~Julian of Norwich (1342-1413), British Christian
"Prayers would not let you hate or make others angry." ~Anon
"Praying is a solemn and individual encounter with God. It is a face to face and heart to heart talk with Him where we are able to express our love, adoration, and thanks. No printed words in any prayer book can replace it." ~Emilio Laxamana Aguinaldo
"Praying is not about asking; it's about listening ... It is just opening your eyes to see what was there all along." Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche
"Praying is sometimes not the only thing that we can do to help those we love, but in many cases it is the best thing that we can do for them." ~Mountain Wisdom
"Protecting your heart with prayer: When we really get serious about prayer, the trigger is usually desperation, not duty." ~David Jeremiah
"Satan laughs at our toiling, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray." ~The Kneeling Christian
"She maybe quiet, but she's a warrior and her prayers can move mountains." ~Native Americans
“Some of my earliest and fondest memories of my mother are of her kneeling at the side of per bed every night and praying. As a child, I would always get very close to her as she prayed. I would put my ear as close as I could to her mouth and try my best to hear what she was saying to God, but I never could make out the words. Today, being married to an addict myself, I'm pretty sure I know exactly what she was praying.” ~Barbara Bice, Just Right
"Some people pray just to pray and some people pray to know God." ~Andrew Murray
"Sometimes our prayers may seem to have been unanswered. But often, if we wait, we find they have been answered after all - though not in the way we had expected." ~Francis Gay, TFBFG 1979
"Spend time in prayer and quiet contemplation. Things have a way of revealing themselves when you’re listening to God." ~Ging Mathers
"Tears are prayers too. They travel to God when we can't speak." ~Anon
"That which brings the praying soul near to God is humility of heart. That which gives wings to prayer is lowliness of mind." ~Edward McKendree Bounds
"The best prayer is humility put into practice." ~Leah C. Dancel
"The best reason to pray is that God is really there. In praying, our unbelief gradually starts to melt. God moves smack into the middle of even an ordinary day ... Prayer is a matter of keeping at it... Thunderclaps and lightning flashes are very unlikely. It is well to start small and quietly." ~Emilie Griffin
"The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays." ~Søren Kierkegaard
"The greatest prayer is patience." ~Buddha (Siddharta Gautama)
"The highest form of prayer comes from the depths of a humble heart." ~Doreen Love (May 24, 2020)
"The highest form of prayer comes from the depths of a humble heart." ~Our Daily Bread
"The kind of prayer God desires flows out of a humble evaluation of our own sinful hearts." ~Anne Cetas
"The Ministry of Prayer, if it be anything worthy of the Name, is a ministry of ardor, a ministry of unwearied and intense longing after God and His holiness." ~E. M. Bounds
"The most important people today are the men and women of prayer. Not those who talk about prayer, nor those who say they believe in prayer, but those who take time to pray." ~Vesta Mangun
"The only power that God will yield to is that of prayer." ~Leonard Ravenhill
"The PRAYERS of your PARENTS is that Invisible Hand that saves the day." ~Anon
"The secret of all failure is our failure in secret prayer." ~The Kneeling Christian
"The secret of praying is praying in secret." ~Leonard Ravenhill
"The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war." ~Douglas MacArthur.
"The things you take for granted, someone else is praying for." ~Anon
"The value of constant prayer is not that He will hear us, but that WE WILL HEAR HIM." ~William McGill
"The word of God is the food by which prayer is nourished and made strong." ~E. M. Bounds
"There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees." ~Victor Hugo
"There is a mighty lot of difference between saying prayers and praying." ~John G. Lake
"There is never a teardrop that God doesn't see. He knows when a sparrow falls from a tree. There is never a moment when God doesn't care, never a time when He won't hear our prayers." ~Beauty in Life
"Those blessings are sweetest that are won with prayers and worn with thanks." ~Thomas Goodwin
"Two places are most valuable in this world: The nicest place is to be in someone's thoughts and the safest place is to be in someone's prayers." ~Anon
"Walking with God down the avenue of prayer we acquire something of His likeness, and unconsciously we become witnesses to others of His beauty and His grace." ~E. M. Bounds
"We are filled with the Holy Spirit by faith alone. However, true prayer is one way of expressing your faith." ~Katherine Keher, Angel Stories and Miracles
"We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties." ~Oswald Chambers
"We lean to our own understanding, or we bank on service and do away with prayer, and consequently by succeeding in the external we fail in the eternal, because in the eternal we succeed only by prevailing prayer." ~Oswald Chambers
"What God gives in answer to our prayers will always be the thing we most urgently need, and it will always be sufficient." ~Elisabeth Elliot
"When a Christian shuns fellowship with other Christians, the devil smiles. When he stops studying the Bible, the devil laughs. When he stops praying, the devil shouts for joy." ~Corrie Ten Boom
"When darkness falls, silence is everywhere. Angels are on the way. They hear your prayers and send them to God. May they come true very soon." ~Roya Piragar
"When I can go no further, I lift my hands upward and pray knowing that my God will carry me the rest of the way." ~Mountain Wisdom
"When life knocks you down to your knees, you’re in a perfect position to pray." ~Unattributed
"When our day begins and ends in prayer, problems don't seem to loom as large." ~Francis Gay (1998)
"When the pain is deep, go deeper in prayer." ~Anon
"When the world pushes you to your knees, you are in a perfect position to pray." ~Rumi
"When we carry a burden which is a heavy load, it makes us weak and feeble and shaky that we kneel down or slump or pass out. But when God holds you, you still sustain enough strength to stay kneeling down, recompose, meditate then pray. You don't even have to say the words. He hears you through your spirit being in you." ~Leah C. Dancel, 9 July 2017
"When we pray, our hearts glow a glorious joy that lights our souls and all the world around us." ~Terri Guillemets
"When we pray, we may not see how God is working or understand how He will bring good through it all. So we have to trust Him. We relinquish our rights and let God do what is best." ~Our Daily Bread
"When we pray, we pray from the heart. By recognising God's mighty power and His great love for mankind, we are able to know that God is real." ~Rowena Caranto
"when you can't put your prayer into words, God hears your heart." ~by Millie
"When you find time on your hands, put them together in Prayer." ~Anon
"When you pray asking GOD for the rain, make sure you are preparing your field" ~From The Movie Facing the Giants via Willa Stock
"When you pray, God hears your words, but he listens to what your heart has to say." ~Mountain Wisdom
"Wherever one is is a place for prayer anytime." ~Romeo Balingcongan
“With prayer as with other gifts from God, it is not what you get that counts, it's what you do with it.” ~Anon
"You come with a cat and call it a rabbit." ~Proverb
"You pray in your distress and in your need, would that you might pray also in the fulness of your joy and your days of abundance." ~Kahlil Gibran
"Your prayers for the SICK won't work if the person you are praying for is not HUMBLE in SPIRIT." ~Leah C. Dancel, December 10, 2018
MEDITATIONS
"As meditation flowers, you find that on one hand truth has revealed to you all its mysteries and on the other blissfulness is showering all its treasures on you." ~Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
"At the beginning of every winter people are careful to install storm windows. These extra panes of glass protect their houses against the bitter winds. We do something very similar to protect our minds through the practice of meditation." ~Eknath Easwaran
"Enjoy simple things with total intensity. Just a cup of tea can be a deep meditation." ~Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
"If you meditate, sooner or later you will come upon love. If you meditate deeply, sooner or later you will start feeling a tremendous love arising in you that you have never known before." ~OSHO
"In meditation, you are calm and receptive. You are like an open door providing a kind of cross ventilation so that the air of divinity can move through you." ~Gurudev Shree Chitrabhanu
"Meditate every day. In the stillness, you will find your true being, you will hear the breathing of your soul - and of God." ~Neale Donald Walsch
"Meditation allows us to directly participate in our lives instead of living life as an afterthought." ~Stephen Levine
"Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing. We let our own natural capacity of healing do the work." ~Thich Nhat Hanh
"Meditation has to become your heartbeat; even when you are asleep the meditation continues like an undercurrent." ~Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
"Meditation is a flower and compassion is its fragrance." ~Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
"Meditation is a silent heart, a peaceful mind which can make life more lovable, more livable...." ~Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
"Meditation is a valuable exercise, but eventually you have to open up your eyes and look around." ~Dan Millman
"Meditation is an energy healing art that has great health benefits. Meditation is great for relaxing the mind, body, and spirit. In addition to boosting immunity to fight off harmful microorganisms, many studies have shown that meditation, mindfulness, and deep relaxation can reduce stress, improve cognitive focus, and affect emotions in positive ways." ~The Relaxed Mind
"Meditation is just a strategy to take away your personality, your thoughts, your mind, your identity with the body, and leave you absolutely alone inside, just a living fire. And once you have found your living fire, you will know all the joys and all the ecstasies that human consciousness is capable of." ~Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
"Meditation is like giving a hug to ourselves, getting in touch with that awesome reality in us." ~Paramahansa Yogananda
"Meditation is not a matter of trying to achieve ecstasy, spiritual bliss or tranquility, nor is it attempting to be a better person. It is simply the creation of a space in which we are able to expose and undo our neurotic games, our self-deceptions, our hidden fears and hopes." ~Chögyam Trungpa
"Meditation is not a means to an end. It is both the means and the end." ~Jiddhu Krishnamurti
"Meditation is not an esoteric practice; it’s not something you do only in a meditation hall or Buddhist retreat center. It can happen right in whatever activity you’re doing — while walking, in the office. It means you are there, present with calm and peace." ~Phap Dung
"Meditation isn’t about becoming a different person, a new person, or even a better person. It’s about training in awareness and getting a healthy sense of perspective." ~Deep Thinker
"Meditation is not something that should be done in a particular position at a particular time. It is an awareness and an attitude that must persist throughout the day." ~Annamalai Swami
"Meditation is not to escape from society, but to come back to ourselves and see what is going on. Once there is seeing, there must be acting. With mindfulness, we know what to do and what not to do to help." ~Thich Nhat Hanh
"Meditation is silence. If you realize that you really know nothing, then you will be truly meditating. Such truthfulness is the right soil for silence. Silence is meditation." ~Yogaswami
"Meditation is the antidote to all the poisons of your life. It is the nourishment of your authentic nature." ~Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
"Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity." ~Sivananda Saraswati
"Meditation is the golden key to all the mysteries of life." ~Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
"Meditation is the highest form of prayer. In it you are so close to God that you don't need to say a thing It's just great to be together." ~Swami Chetan
"Meditation is the most significant because it opens the door for all other significant things: love, prayer, God, light, music, poetry." ~Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
"Meditation is the soul's perspective glass." ~Owen Feltham
"Meditation makes you innocent, it makes you childlike. In that state, miracles are possible. That state is pure magic." ~Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
"Meditation, perhaps, is the only alchemy that can transform a beggar into an emperor." ~Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
"Meditation provides a way of learning how to let go. As we sit, the self we've been trying to construct and make into a nice, neat package continues to unravel." ~John Welwood
"Meditation stills the wandering mind and establishes us forever in a state of peace." ~Muktananda
"Mind is a door that leads you outside in the world; meditation is the door that leads you to your interiority—to the very innermost shrine of your being." ~Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
"Mindfulness meditation doesn't change life. Life remains as fragile and unpredictable as ever. Meditation changes the heart's capacity to accept life as it is." ~Sylvia Boorstein
"My whole effort here is to keep you as non-serious as possible, for the simple reason that meditation, all kinds of meditation, can make you too serious and that seriousness will create a spiritual disease and nothing else. Unless a meditation brings you more laughter, more joy, more playfulness, avoid it. It is not for you." ~Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
"Our minds and hearts need food. And meditation is a kind of food. So we feed ourselves like that. You need to eat, and your peace, kindness, clarity need to eat as well. Meditation is not just praying; no, you’re cultivating this so you can offer it to others." ~Phap Dung
"Seek in reading and thou shalt find in meditation; knock in prayer and it shall be opened in contemplation." ~John of the Cross
"Serenity is natural poetry and a meditation." ~Edward Soliangco
"Singing is meditation that massages the heart and brings your mind into the magic of the present moment." ~Woman with A Dream
"Spiritual meditation is the pathway to Divinity. It is a mystic ladder which reaches from earth to heaven, from error to Truth, from pain to peace." ~James Allen
"The deepest experiences in meditation lead us to an intimate awareness of life's essential openness and emptiness, of its ever-changing nature, of its nature as an unstoppable process." ~Jack Kornfield
"The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large." ~Confucius
"The practice of meditation can, and should, be focused on the present. On the one hand, we silence the disturbing voices that bind us to the past. On the other, we must block the often frightening pictures that we ourselves create to represent our concerns about the future. Since our own fears create these pictures, they're neither comforting nor pleasant—and since there are countless possible futures that we have available to us, these "pictures" may not necessarily manifest as the actual future. Many of our personal conflicts and tensions can be resolved when meditation allows us to concentrate fully on the present. This is how we develop the ability to focus on what's important, minimizing extraneous thoughts. The practice of meditation needs persistence and tenacity, as negative thoughts may return repeatedly, often through mere force of habit. The past is finished. Learn from it and let it go. As for the future, it isn't even here yet—of course you should plan for it, but don't waste your time worrying about it. Worrying is worthless. When you stop focusing on what has already happened and what may never happen, then you'll be in the present moment. Then you'll begin to experience joy in life." ~Dr. Brian Weiss
"The practice of meditation is not a method for the attainment of realization it is enlightenment itself." ~Dogen
"The practice of reflective meditation, which consists of holding certain ideas in the mind long enough to enable them to form emotional connections, tends to break up the crust of habit and to create a new will." ~Walter M. Horton
"The you that goes in one side of the meditation experience is not the same you that comes out the other side." ~Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
"Through meditation you discover that while it is the brain that moves the body, it is the mind that moves the world." ~Stuart Avery Gold
"To be alone and to be drunk with your own aloneness is what meditation is all about." ~Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
"Meditation is not something that should be done in a particular position at a particular time. It is an awareness and an attitude that must persist throughout the day." ~Annamalai Swami
"Meditation is not to escape from society, but to come back to ourselves and see what is going on. Once there is seeing, there must be acting. With mindfulness, we know what to do and what not to do to help." ~Thich Nhat Hanh
"Meditation is silence. If you realize that you really know nothing, then you will be truly meditating. Such truthfulness is the right soil for silence. Silence is meditation." ~Yogaswami
"Meditation is the antidote to all the poisons of your life. It is the nourishment of your authentic nature." ~Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
"Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity." ~Sivananda Saraswati
"Meditation is the golden key to all the mysteries of life." ~Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
"Meditation is the highest form of prayer. In it you are so close to God that you don't need to say a thing It's just great to be together." ~Swami Chetan
"Meditation is the most significant because it opens the door for all other significant things: love, prayer, God, light, music, poetry." ~Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
"Meditation is the soul's perspective glass." ~Owen Feltham
"Meditation makes you innocent, it makes you childlike. In that state, miracles are possible. That state is pure magic." ~Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
"Meditation, perhaps, is the only alchemy that can transform a beggar into an emperor." ~Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
"Meditation provides a way of learning how to let go. As we sit, the self we've been trying to construct and make into a nice, neat package continues to unravel." ~John Welwood
"Meditation stills the wandering mind and establishes us forever in a state of peace." ~Muktananda
"Mind is a door that leads you outside in the world; meditation is the door that leads you to your interiority—to the very innermost shrine of your being." ~Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
"Mindfulness meditation doesn't change life. Life remains as fragile and unpredictable as ever. Meditation changes the heart's capacity to accept life as it is." ~Sylvia Boorstein
"My whole effort here is to keep you as non-serious as possible, for the simple reason that meditation, all kinds of meditation, can make you too serious and that seriousness will create a spiritual disease and nothing else. Unless a meditation brings you more laughter, more joy, more playfulness, avoid it. It is not for you." ~Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
"Our minds and hearts need food. And meditation is a kind of food. So we feed ourselves like that. You need to eat, and your peace, kindness, clarity need to eat as well. Meditation is not just praying; no, you’re cultivating this so you can offer it to others." ~Phap Dung
"Seek in reading and thou shalt find in meditation; knock in prayer and it shall be opened in contemplation." ~John of the Cross
"Serenity is natural poetry and a meditation." ~Edward Soliangco
"Singing is meditation that massages the heart and brings your mind into the magic of the present moment." ~Woman with A Dream
"Spiritual meditation is the pathway to Divinity. It is a mystic ladder which reaches from earth to heaven, from error to Truth, from pain to peace." ~James Allen
"The deepest experiences in meditation lead us to an intimate awareness of life's essential openness and emptiness, of its ever-changing nature, of its nature as an unstoppable process." ~Jack Kornfield
"The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large." ~Confucius
"The practice of meditation can, and should, be focused on the present. On the one hand, we silence the disturbing voices that bind us to the past. On the other, we must block the often frightening pictures that we ourselves create to represent our concerns about the future. Since our own fears create these pictures, they're neither comforting nor pleasant—and since there are countless possible futures that we have available to us, these "pictures" may not necessarily manifest as the actual future. Many of our personal conflicts and tensions can be resolved when meditation allows us to concentrate fully on the present. This is how we develop the ability to focus on what's important, minimizing extraneous thoughts. The practice of meditation needs persistence and tenacity, as negative thoughts may return repeatedly, often through mere force of habit. The past is finished. Learn from it and let it go. As for the future, it isn't even here yet—of course you should plan for it, but don't waste your time worrying about it. Worrying is worthless. When you stop focusing on what has already happened and what may never happen, then you'll be in the present moment. Then you'll begin to experience joy in life." ~Dr. Brian Weiss
"The practice of meditation is not a method for the attainment of realization it is enlightenment itself." ~Dogen
"The practice of reflective meditation, which consists of holding certain ideas in the mind long enough to enable them to form emotional connections, tends to break up the crust of habit and to create a new will." ~Walter M. Horton
"The you that goes in one side of the meditation experience is not the same you that comes out the other side." ~Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
"Through meditation you discover that while it is the brain that moves the body, it is the mind that moves the world." ~Stuart Avery Gold
"To be alone and to be drunk with your own aloneness is what meditation is all about." ~Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
"To meditate is to rest mind like forest." ~Gede Prama
"True meditation gives us, as it were, wings for flight to a higher realm and thus detaches us from terrestrial fetters." ~Paramananda
"When the mind is really absent, in that silence, in that unlimited space, your potential starts glowing, radiating, flowering. Suddenly you are full of cherry blossoms, a new presence, a new fragrance." ~Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
"You experience the deepest worship in your life in your dark moments, when you weather storms after storms." ~Kyle Reygel Perales
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PRAYER
"Dear God,
I don’t want to go another day
without you in my life,
controlling every part of my heart.
I offer you my body.
I dedicate myself to you.
In light of all you’ve done for me,
I give myself as a living sacrifice
to you as a spiritual act of worship.
I humbly admit that I need help.
I want you to help renew my mind.
Help me to think
the way you want me to think.
Please forgive me for my pride.
I don’t want to think
more highly of myself than I should.
My faith needs to grow,
and I need your help
to set goals that can be measured
so I can manage them.
Forgive me for trying
to change on my own.
I want to fill my life with love.
I want to fill my life with you.
Help me to get group support.
Help me to take delight
in honoring other people,
to focus on giving my life away
so that you can take care of my needs.
I want to nurture
my enthusiasm by being in you.
Help me to be joyful in hope,
patient in affliction,
and faithful in prayer.
I give myself to you.
In your name I pray.
Amen.”
~Pastor Rick Warren
PRAYER
"Dear God,
Please help me to see this situation clearly.
Help me to see the best path to take
and to find grace through this journey.
I call forward the wisdom
of my Higher Self and my angelic team
and ask for signs of magic along my way.
Help me to see through the eyes of my soul
so that my journey is filled with love and joy.
Help me find my way into a deeper level
of authentic joy and well-being.
I now allow myself to connect
with the wisdom in my soul.
I trust my path and I know
I am being gently held
in the love of the Divine.
Thank you, God,
for watching over me.
Love, Me."
~Laurel Bleadon-Maffei
VERSE
"Lord, when I am wrong make me willing to change;
And when I am right make me easy to live with!"
~Anon, TFBFG 1998/mpw
~♥~~♥~~♥~
"Say a little prayer today
Its something we can all give
Say a prayer for all you love
And all you wish you could
Say a little prayer for peace and strength
Say a prayer for hope
Every little prayer you pray
Is precious in its worth!" ~Cam Richmond
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"True meditation gives us, as it were, wings for flight to a higher realm and thus detaches us from terrestrial fetters." ~Paramananda
“We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.” ~Dalai Lama
"When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator." ~Mahatma Gandhi
“When the world pushes you to your knees, you're in the perfect position to pray” ~Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S
"When you are angry with someone and you throw your anger on him, you are creating a chain reaction. Now he too will be angry. This may continue for lives and you will go on being enemies. How can you end it? There is only one possibility. You can end it only in meditation, nowhere else, because in meditation you are not angry with someone: you are simply angry." ~Osho
"Wisdom happens through meditation, and bliss also happens through meditation. Both the flowers bloom on the same branch." ~Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
"You cannot see clearly, because you are so full of expectations, hopes, desires. Your eyes are covered with many layers of dust: you need a deep cleansing of your eyes. That's what meditation is. Let the thoughts disappear, the hopes disappear, the desires disappear. Then you have a clarity, then your eyes are perfect mirrors. Only then, in that silent state of your vision, will you know the secrets of the beyond." ~Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
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OTHERS
"Contemplation places us in a purity and radiance which is far above our understanding." ~John of Ruysbroeck
"Finding love is like finding one answer to all of your prayers." ~Jennifer Regimbald
"For what is prayer but the extension of yourself into the living ether?" ~Khalil Gibran
"If you learn to go beyond the jabbering of your mind, and can go to the deeper aspects of your consciousness, then body, breath, and mind will not come in your way." ~Swāmī Rāma
"One hour of contemplation surpasses sixty years of worship." ~Muhammad
"The ordinary activities I find most compatible with contemplation are walking, baking bread, and doing laundry." ~Kathleen Norris
"When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator." ~Mahatma Gandhi
“When the world pushes you to your knees, you're in the perfect position to pray” ~Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S
"When you are angry with someone and you throw your anger on him, you are creating a chain reaction. Now he too will be angry. This may continue for lives and you will go on being enemies. How can you end it? There is only one possibility. You can end it only in meditation, nowhere else, because in meditation you are not angry with someone: you are simply angry." ~Osho
"Wisdom happens through meditation, and bliss also happens through meditation. Both the flowers bloom on the same branch." ~Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
"You cannot see clearly, because you are so full of expectations, hopes, desires. Your eyes are covered with many layers of dust: you need a deep cleansing of your eyes. That's what meditation is. Let the thoughts disappear, the hopes disappear, the desires disappear. Then you have a clarity, then your eyes are perfect mirrors. Only then, in that silent state of your vision, will you know the secrets of the beyond." ~Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
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OTHERS
"Contemplation places us in a purity and radiance which is far above our understanding." ~John of Ruysbroeck
"Finding love is like finding one answer to all of your prayers." ~Jennifer Regimbald
"For what is prayer but the extension of yourself into the living ether?" ~Khalil Gibran
"If you learn to go beyond the jabbering of your mind, and can go to the deeper aspects of your consciousness, then body, breath, and mind will not come in your way." ~Swāmī Rāma
"One hour of contemplation surpasses sixty years of worship." ~Muhammad
"The ordinary activities I find most compatible with contemplation are walking, baking bread, and doing laundry." ~Kathleen Norris
"There are no rules of worship. He will hear the voice of every heart that is sincere." ~Rumi
"When the mind is really absent, in that silence, in that unlimited space, your potential starts glowing, radiating, flowering. Suddenly you are full of cherry blossoms, a new presence, a new fragrance." ~Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
"You experience the deepest worship in your life in your dark moments, when you weather storms after storms." ~Kyle Reygel Perales
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PRAYER
"Dear God,
I don’t want to go another day
without you in my life,
controlling every part of my heart.
I offer you my body.
I dedicate myself to you.
In light of all you’ve done for me,
I give myself as a living sacrifice
to you as a spiritual act of worship.
I humbly admit that I need help.
I want you to help renew my mind.
Help me to think
the way you want me to think.
Please forgive me for my pride.
I don’t want to think
more highly of myself than I should.
My faith needs to grow,
and I need your help
to set goals that can be measured
so I can manage them.
Forgive me for trying
to change on my own.
I want to fill my life with love.
I want to fill my life with you.
Help me to get group support.
Help me to take delight
in honoring other people,
to focus on giving my life away
so that you can take care of my needs.
I want to nurture
my enthusiasm by being in you.
Help me to be joyful in hope,
patient in affliction,
and faithful in prayer.
I give myself to you.
In your name I pray.
Amen.”
~Pastor Rick Warren
PRAYER
"Dear God,
Please help me to see this situation clearly.
Help me to see the best path to take
and to find grace through this journey.
I call forward the wisdom
of my Higher Self and my angelic team
and ask for signs of magic along my way.
Help me to see through the eyes of my soul
so that my journey is filled with love and joy.
Help me find my way into a deeper level
of authentic joy and well-being.
I now allow myself to connect
with the wisdom in my soul.
I trust my path and I know
I am being gently held
in the love of the Divine.
Thank you, God,
for watching over me.
Love, Me."
~Laurel Bleadon-Maffei
VERSE
"Lord, when I am wrong make me willing to change;
And when I am right make me easy to live with!"
~Anon, TFBFG 1998/mpw
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"Say a little prayer today
Its something we can all give
Say a prayer for all you love
And all you wish you could
Say a little prayer for peace and strength
Say a prayer for hope
Every little prayer you pray
Is precious in its worth!" ~Cam Richmond
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