“That’s where thinking started, where thinking stopped, where all her prayers so long ago had dried up. She no longer prayed, nor even dreamed of changing her father. Her dreams now played variations on the theme of escape. And they were nothing more than that —just dreams, just play. She’d been alone at the end of her dreams so many times before and never had God helped her escape her father, because God couldn’t, because she would never escape her need to love him.” ThinkingLoveGodReligionPrayerChristianityDreamsNeedEscapeChristian Fiction Book:The God Cookie Source: The God Cookie
“Properly understood, Imagination and Prayer are directly proportional —the more they pray beyond their bounds, they expand their vision beyond their resources, their experiences, their expectations.” ReligionImaginationPrayerChristianityChristian FictionGrimrack Author:Geoffrey Wood
“When some one mortal yet eternal human merely being relying on precisely nothing but the audacious love of his Maker, calls on Him to part the Heavens, well, we are undone.” GodReligionPrayerChristianityEternalChristian FictionGrimrack Author:Geoffrey Wood
“Faith is where they learn about their God; but Prayer is where they explore Him.” GodReligionFaithPrayerChristianityChristian FictionGrimrack Author:Geoffrey Wood
“True Prayer is the work of relationship, where He moves them from mere information about Him to a one-on-one experience with Him, so that now when they talk about “knowing God,” they mean more than, “I understand what you’re saying about God,” but also, “It fits my experience of Him.” GodReligionPrayerChristianityChristian FictionGrimrack Author:Geoffrey Wood
“They think that if they had more belief they would pray more, so keep them lacking. Never let them realize that the opposite is true: If they prayed more, they would have more belief.” ReligionBeliefPrayerChristianityChristian FictionGrimrack Author:Geoffrey Wood
“When young, the humans are all Imagination because Memory is so much smaller a part of their experience, so little of them is grounded in it. As they grow older, however, Memory overtakes their Imagination, outweighs it. But when they pray with ever increasing confidence, they see with an ever-increasing and youthful Imagination and such burgeoning of possibility causes even their Memory to be lightened and redeemed. The scales fall from their eyes and they wait on their Father with the same childlike wonder that watches a sunrise to see what might happen this time.” GodReligionImaginationPrayerChristianityMemoryChristian FictionRedeemedGrimrack Author:Geoffrey Wood
“All this has been happening around them all the days of their lives though they couldn’t see it, then one day, Prayer removes the veil and everything changes. Think of it this way: Picture a man whistling a tune, when out of nowhere, first a harmony joins, then another, and then suddenly he is taken up into a whirlwind of music, countless instruments playing soaring complexities that the man’s whistling is, indeed, a part of, but now he begins to see how small a part; the longer he listens, he realizes that his is not the melody and where he had thought he was whistling alone, the truth had always been the music playing, though never before that moment heard, and now what had been noise becomes symphony.” GodReligionPrayerChristianityHarmonyMelodySymphonyChristian FictionGrimrack Author:Geoffrey Wood
