Karen

“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.”
― Linda McCullough Moore, The Book of Not So Common Prayer: A New Way to Pray, A New Way to Live

“we are nowhere near the heart of prayer until we understand ourselves as wretches—and wretched at that—those beings so lost that nothing short of the death of God could save us. If we are “not so bad really,” then grace is not amazing.”
― Linda McCullough Moore, The Book of Not So Common Prayer: A New Way to Pray, A New Way to Live

“Be Thou my battle shield, sword for the fight; Be Thou my dignity, Thou my delight; Thou my soul’s shelter, Thou my high tower: Raise Thou me heavenward, O power of my power…. Thou and Thou only, first in my heart; High King of Heaven, my Treasure Thou art. “BE THOU MY VISION,” Traditional Irish hymn [PD]”
― Kurt Bjorklund, Prayers for Today: A Yearlong Journey of Contemplative Prayer

“Who shall separate me from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? … No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. ROMANS 8:31–37”
― Kurt Bjorklund, Prayers for Today: A Yearlong Journey of Contemplative Prayer