Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one
A good Catholic meddles in politics, offering the best of himself, so that those who govern can govern. But what is the best that we can offer to those who govern? Prayer!
There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.
Without prayer, without faith in the Almighty, the civil rights movement would have been like a bird without wings.
To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.
Prayer doesn't just change things - it changes us. If we are diligent in seeking God, slowly and surely we become better people.
To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.
The Lord is my shepherdI shall not want him for longHe maketh me to lie down in green pasturesand there are no green pasturesHe leadeth me beside still watersand still waters run deep
Even when she was speaking, her soul was in prayer reposing on an unseen support.
There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is. ~William Shakespeare
Perhaps the prayer that is offered when the time for praying is over is more terribly pathetic than any other. Yet one might hesitate to say that this prayer was unanswered.("The Undying Thing")
I found myself praying: "May I love and accept myself just as I am.
Rather than walk about holy places we can thus pause in our thoughts, examine our heart, and visit the wheel promised land.
He (Lincoln) was accustomed to hearing words, many of them boring, but he was not accustomed to group silence.
He (Lincoln) recognized the delicate balance between immanence and transcendence, refusing to settle for either of these alone. His was a God who was both in the world and above the world.
Lincoln had entirely outgrown juvenile delight in religious argument. Talking with God seemed to the mature Lincoln more important than talking about Him.
What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.[Lincoln's maxim and philosophy]
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