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“I can do only one thing, like a little dog follow closely the Master's footsteps. Pray that I be a cheerful dog.”

Littles I Can Spirituality Can Do One Thing Dog Masters Praying Cheerful Footsteps

“prayer can be an easy substitute for real spirituality. It would be impossible to have spirituality without prayer, of course, but it is certainly possible to pray without having a spirituality at all. How do you know? 'Am I becoming kinder?' is a good place to start.”

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Author:Joan D. Chittister

“Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.”

“So often these days eating Indian food passes for spirituality. I don't meditate, I don't pray, but I eat two samosa's every day.”

Two Spirituality Praying Eating Indian These Days Indian Food

Author:Dan Bern

“[W]omen's magazines know that more than two thirds of women pray each day so they tend to promote "spirituality" which is warm, soft, fuzzy, and "me-centered, " rather than religion, which is definitely not. Shot with a soft-focus lens, spirituality in women's media has morphed into another method of stress reduction. Lulling and inoffensive, spirituality is more about taking long walks and buying $65 Jo Malone scented candles than making ethical decisions or moral judgments. It's another way to calm ourselves, refresh ourselves, or applaud ourselves.”

“I think being really connected to a higher power, of having a spirituality to me, has been really good for me and I pray all the time.”

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Author:Alicia Keys

“I reached the point in my life now that I understand as human beings we've all done some very horrible things to other human beings, and at some point, I came to grips with the fact that whoever murdered my friend is now an adult, and all I can truly hopefully pray for is that in murdering my friend it bettered their life. And I don't mean that they gained things, but just that they grew up, they regret their decision, they found a place of spirituality or God or whatever people call it.”

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Author:Killer Mike

“I definitely believe in spirituality. I like to pray, but I'm not praying to something that I can define; I'm just speaking because I know it does have an effect. I believe there are some great things that I've taken from the Bible in terms of loving the world and trying to be kind. There are a lot of good things to take from the Bible, and I like to think I try to apply them to my life.”

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Author:Michaela Coel

“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.”

Source: Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays

“But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?”

Source: Autobiographical Writings

“Spirituality without a prayer life is no spirituality at all, and it will not last beyond the first defeats. Prayer is an opening of the self so that the Word of God can break in and make us new. Prayer unmasks. Prayer converts. Prayer impels. Prayer sustains us on the way. Pray for the grace it will take to continue what you would like to quit.”

Way Firsts Self Lasts Life Is Spirituality Prayer Break Grace Praying Defeat Quitting Opening Word Of God Prayer Life

Author:Joan D. Chittister

“Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie - I found that out.”

Inspiration Spiritual Lying Spirituality Found Prayer Praying Deep Down Huckleberry

Book:Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Source: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

“The prayer of the monk is not perfect until he no longer recognizes himself or the fact that he is praying.”

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Author:Anthony of Padua

“Oh, Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees That half a proper gardener's work is done upon his knees, So when your work is finished, you can wash your hands and pray For the Glory of the Garden, that it may not pass away!”

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Author:Rudyard Kipling

“Spirituality can release blocks, lead you to ideas, and make your life artful. Sometimes when we pray for guidance, we're guided in unexpected directions. We may want a lofty answer and we get the intuition to clean our bedroom. It can seem so humble and picky and that you don't necessarily think of it spiritual guidance.”

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Author:Julia Cameron

“Spirituality is no different from what weve been doing for two thousand years just by going to church and receiving the sacraments, being baptized, learning to pray, and reading Scriptures rightly. Its just ordinary stuff.”

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Author:Eugene H. Peterson

“The quest for this unwearied peace is constant and universal. Probe deeply into the teaching of Buddha, Maimonides, or a Kempis, and you will discover that they base their diverse doctrines on the foundation of a large spiritual serenity. Analyze the prayers of troubled, overborne mankind of all creeds, in every age-and their petitions come down to the irreducible common denominators of daily bread and inward peace. Grown men do not pray for vain trifles. When they lift up their hearts and voices in the valley of tears they ask for strength and courage and understanding.”

“It seems to me that when we listen to the Muslim mystics as they talk about Jesus and their love for Jesus, I must say, it’s a lot closer to New Testament Christianity than a lot of the Christians that I hear. In other words if we are looking for common ground, can we find it in mystical spirituality, even if we cannot theologically agree, Can we pray together in such a way that we connect with a God that transcends our theological differences?”

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Author:Tony Campolo

“A Ten-Point Plan for Increased Spirituality: 1. Read Scriptures Daily. 2. Pray Fervently and Sincerely. 3. Fast Meaningfully. 4. Retire Early and Get Up Early. 5. Be of Good Cheer. 6. Work Hard. 7. Overcome Pride. 8. Love Everyone, and Express Your Love. 9. Become One. (As in John 17) 10. Share Your Testimony.”

Love Hard Spirituality Plans Share Hard Work Pride Praying Ten Overcoming Scripture Get Up Cheer Retiring Testimony Sincerely Up Early Love Everyone Good Cheer

Author:Joe J. Christensen

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