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“So if waiting is an aggravation, it is at least partly because we do not like being reminded of our limits. We like doing -- earning, buying, selling, building, planting, driving, baking -- making things happen, whereas waiting is essentially a matter of being -- stopping, sitting, listening, looking, breathing, wondering, praying. It can feel pretty helpless to wait for someone or something that is not here yet and that will or will not arrive in its own good time, which is not the same thing as our own good time.”

Ifs Feels Matter Happens Waiting Wonder Building Listening Praying Limits Sitting Driving Things Happen Selling Breathing Buying Good Times Helpless Earning Stopping Baking Aggravation

Book:Gospel Medicine

Source: Gospel Medicine

“Today, from the bridge, the East River is sparkling. The money is swirling around the tall buildings like tides or like tithes, And I wonder, does anyone swim in this river, I wonder, does anyone pray?”

Doe Today Wonder Building Praying Rivers East Bridges Swim Tall Tides Sparkling Tithe Tall Buildings

Author:Katy Lederer

“Wonder is very important, because if we never wondered, we would never get to the point of asking questions. Yet wonder may lead people to write poetry or to paint pictures or to pray, as well as to ask the kinds of questions about the world and themselves that can be answered by science.”

People Ifs World Writing Wells Kind May Important Asks Wonder Praying Asking Paint Asking Questions

Book:PEOPLE AND PLACES

Source: PEOPLE AND PLACES

“I knew what the sanctified life was not. Not a life filled with more rituals, more scrupulously observed. Not more praying. Not becoming a better person, being more charitable, more concerned with everyone else's pains. Sanctifying had something to do with a sense of constant wonder - feeling gratitude and finding significance everywhere, in every action, relationship and object.”

Persons Feelings Action Pain Wonder Objects Praying Becoming Gratitude Findings Concerned Filled Constant Significance Ritual Better Person Charitable Becoming A Better Person

Author:Vanessa L Ochs

“When a poor disconsolated drooping creature is terrified from all enjoyment,--prays without ceasing 'till his imagination is heated,--fasts and mortifies and mopes, till his body is in as bad a plight as his mind; is it a wonder, that the mechanical disturbancesof an empty belly, interpreted by an empty head, should be mistook for [the] workings [of God].”

Should Mind Body Imagination Poor Wonder Praying Creatures Empty Enjoyment Terrified Belly Plight Empty Heads

Author:Laurence Sterne

“To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.”

Wonder Mystery Divine Praying Margins Attainment

Book:Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays

Source: Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays

“Do not wonder that I am so religious. An artist who is not could not produce anything like this. I like praying there at the window when I look out on the green and at the sky. I study with the birds, flowers, God and myself.”

Looks Artist Religious Wonder Study Sky Produce Flower Praying Bird Window Green

Author:Antonin Dvorak

“I do think prayer is powerful and it is not to be diminished. Some of us who are struggling to put food on the table and are wondering where the next paycheck is coming from or have dangerous health situations and they don't have access to appropriate care do pray - do pray for yourselves and for others.”

Thinking Care Next Prayer Powerful Situation Wonder Struggle Dangerous Praying Tables Access Appropriate Paychecks Praying For You

Author:Ashley Judd

“The human being of all times prays because he cannot fail to wonder about the meaning of his life, which remains obscure and discomforting of it is not put in relations to the mystery of God and if his plan for the world.”

Ifs World Humans Human Beings Wonder Plans Failing Mystery Praying Relation Remains All Time Obscure Mystery Of God

Book:A School of Prayer

Source: A School of Prayer

“Somewhere a woman is praying her toddler wins a beauty pageant. I say this because sometimes people wonder why God lets tornadoes happen.”

People Sometimes Happens Winning Wonder Praying Toddler Tornadoes Pageant Beauty Pageant

Author:Dana Gould