“By dipping us children in the Bible so often, they hoped, I think, to give our lives a serious tint, and to provide us with quaintly magnificent snatches of prayer to produce as charms while, say, being mugged for our cash or jewels.” ThinkingGivingChildrenPrayerOur LivesAtheismProduceSeriousPositive AtheismCharmCashMagnificentJewels Book:An American Childhood Source: An American Childhood
“Mediocre people often have a tinge of religion about them, but it is only a tinge. They take their religion as it comes. They may pray and worship more or less regularly, and they usually stay clear of publicly disgraceful crimes, but they are lukewarm, colorless. Seldom or never do they read a serious book about prayer or study to learn more about God and His plans, to discover how to be humble and chaste and patient. They are always too busy for the one thing necessary.” PeopleMayBookPrayerStudyClearPlansOne ThingCrimeSeriousPrayingWorshipPatientBusyHumbleMediocreToo BusyBe HumbleChasteDisgracefulLukewarmColorless Author:Thomas Dubay
“The prayer does call for serious, serious punishment on people. But I didn't call for that, God did.” PeopleDoePrayerSeriousScaryPunishment Author:Wiley Drake
“I learned to pray out of desperation. For most of us, this is how the adventure usually begins. When we finally get serious about prayer, the trigger is usually desperation, not duty.... We don't pray because we ought, we pray because we are without any other recourse.” PrayerSeriousAdventureDutyOughtPrayingDesperationTriggersRecourse Author:David Jeremiah
“To feel the suffering and then to know the pain of the unnecessariness of it. That right there has me in its grip. The only way through that is serious prayer. I can't get through it any other way. I've got to believe that that's making a difference somehow. I can't see the difference, but I've got to believe it does, because in some way it lets me sleep at night. My only other alternative is to become angry, and I can't go that direction.” KnowsWayFeelsBelieveDoeI CanPainNightSufferingDifferencesPrayerSleepSeriousLet MeAngryAlternativesMaking A Difference Author:Caroline Myss
“The devil resists serious, focused prayer because he's defeated by it. And so the devil will try to attack our concentration in prayer; he will try to confuse or contradict the content of our prayers; he will do his best to distract and/or divert us in prayer so that we're crippled by inconsistency.” TryingPrayerSeriousDevilFocusedConcentrationDefeatedOur PrayersInconsistency Author:Anne Graham Lotz