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The simple act of prayer
There is a moment between intending to pray and actually praying that is as dark and silent as any moment in our lives.
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Hearing the Word of God
Open the Bible and listen to the Spirit. The message is not, “God is there.” It’s, “Look: I am here.” Chris Webb — Renovaré (@renovareusa) May 19, 2016
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What will get me up every day for the next 20 years
I have said over the past couple of years that I’m only praying what God asks me to pray. Those are huge prayers, but I’ve seen huge answers since then.
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Filled with Awe? Not really
Our insistence on being impressed by so little has diminished us. There aren’t things that capture us and truly take our breath away any more.
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Living at peace with others
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The gift of silence and solitude
“The only thing to seek in contemplative prayer is God; and we seek Him successfully when we realize that we cannot find Him unless He shows Himself to us, and yet at the same time that He would not have inspired us to seek Him unless we had already found Him.” ― Thomas Merton, Thoughts in Solitude
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The beauty of silence
Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure. — Henri Nouwen
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Merton’s prophetic words on the absence of silence
“When society is made up of men who know no interior solitude it can no longer be held together by love: and consequently it is held together by a violent and abusive authority. But when men are violently deprived of the solitude and freedom which are their due, then society in which they live becomes putrid, it festers with servility,…
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The gift of silence
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls. — Mother Teresa
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The hardest place of trust
There are places of testing the Lord will take us… and then places the enemy will try and press us from time to time. In both areas of testing, the question for me is one of TRUST. Am I able to lean on him? 20 Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine,…
Category: Prayer
