"Be earnest and disciplined in your prayers". - 1 Peter 4:7Of all the activities we may engage in today: ordinary maintenance and routine, extra-ordinary problem solving, deep thinking and learning, kind actions, holy conversations, community care, world changing developments; the most vital and foundational activity requires intentionality and patience, for truly divine wisdom and character is forged within us when we set apart time to humbly and simply release ourselves to the sacred quiet in prayer. Without prayer we are lost and wandering, within prayer our path is illuminated as we are connected to the Source. Prayer is relationship and power, pure and simple. Prayer is the Maker's way.
QUOTES from: A Pocket Prayer Book - 1941 (given to me at graduation in 1987).
"I have much work to do today, so I will arise an hour earlier in order to have time for quiet prayer." - Luther
"Prayer is not a mere telephoning to God to ask Him to do things, but a developing life, an expanding, a deepening, a heightening, an intensifying of the whole being." - A.H. McNeile
"Lord, what a change within us one short hour spent in Thy Presence will prevail to make!" - Archbishop Trench
"I have much work to do today, so I will arise an hour earlier in order to have time for quiet prayer." - Luther
"Prayer is not a mere telephoning to God to ask Him to do things, but a developing life, an expanding, a deepening, a heightening, an intensifying of the whole being." - A.H. McNeile
"Lord, what a change within us one short hour spent in Thy Presence will prevail to make!" - Archbishop Trench
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