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researcher in 2006 found that more than 40 percent of the actions people performed each day weren’t actual decisions, but habits.
“God is Lord of all, or he is not Lord at all. Christianity is many things, but one thing it is not is a sideline, a nice hobby, a part-time occupation. We have two choices: in or out; holy or not holy. We must never pretend God sent his Son to die so that we might have life occasionally, so that we might flicker in and out. Abide, he says. In me.”
― The Book of Not So Common Prayer: A New Way to Pray, A New Way to Live
― The Book of Not So Common Prayer: A New Way to Pray, A New Way to Live
“I think the devil must dearly love short prayers, the quick and easy kind where we can dip one toe in, tell ourselves we did it, and console each other: “Prayer is hard.” We shake our heads and say, “It’s not easy,” as if to say God isn’t always there, when truth be told, we haven’t stuck around long enough to find out whether he is or not.”
― The Book of Not So Common Prayer: A New Way to Pray, A New Way to Live
― The Book of Not So Common Prayer: A New Way to Pray, A New Way to Live
“Much time spent with God is the secret of all successful praying. Prayer which is felt as a mighty force is the mediate or immediate product of much time spent with God. Our short prayers owe their point and efficiency to the long ones that have preceded them. The short prevailing prayer cannot be prayed by one who has not prevailed with God in a mightier struggle of long continuance.”
― He Restores My Soul
― He Restores My Soul
“no matter how much time we pray, there are hours in the day that we all spend with other people, and I think we could make a pretty strong case that it matters who those people are. I think in every life, one priority is finding one or more seasoned Christians with whom to spend some serious time.”
― The Book of Not So Common Prayer: A New Way to Pray, A New Way to Live
― The Book of Not So Common Prayer: A New Way to Pray, A New Way to Live
“If we wait for everything around us to be OK before we open up our hearts to praise, we will wait forever. The secret in life is to make a place for joy and thanksgiving no matter what the circumstance.”
― The Book of Not So Common Prayer: A New Way to Pray, A New Way to Live
― The Book of Not So Common Prayer: A New Way to Pray, A New Way to Live
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