“The Psalms offer us a way of joining in a chorus of praise and prayer that has been going on for millennia and across all cultures. Not to try to inhabit them, while continuing to invent non-psalmic 'worship' based on our own feelings of the moment, risks being like a spoiled child who, taken to the summit of Table Mountain with the city and the ocean spread out before him, refuses to gaze at the view because he is playing with his Game Boy” WayTryingChildrenHas BeensMomentsFeelingsCultureGamesPrayerViewsCitiesBoysTakenRiskOffersMountainOceanWorshipPraiseTablesRefuseSpreadContinuingSummitJoiningSpoiledChorusPsalmsSpoiled ChildrenJoining In Author:N. T. Wright
“After you have made a decision that is pleasing to God, the Devil may try to make you have second thoughts. Intensify your prayer time, meditation, and good deeds. For if Satan's temptations merely cause you to increase your efforts to grow in holiness, he'll have an incentive to leave you alone.” IfsTryingMayMadeGrowsCausesPrayerDecisionEffortMeditationDevilIncreaseSaintDeedsTemptationSatanHolinessGood DeedsIncentivesOur PrayersSpiritual WarfareSecond ThoughtsPrayer Time Author:Ignatius of Loyola
“Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.” LifeTryingReligionPrayerResultsAddSomething NewMetaphysicsTry AgainDaily Prayer Book:The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi Source: The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi
“Prayer is, for me, not an opportunity to ask God to do stuff for me. Prayer is an opportunity to open myself, to try and understand his will, and oftentimes it's a prayer of thanksgiving, and sometimes it's a prayer of supplication, and sometimes it is just worship.” TryingSometimesAsksOpportunityStuffPrayerWorshipSupplication Author:Francis Collins