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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.
“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.”
― 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
“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”
― Prayers for Today: A Yearlong Journey of Contemplative Prayer
― Prayers for Today: A Yearlong Journey of Contemplative Prayer
“Most merciful God, order my day so that I may know what you want me to do, and then help me to do it. Let me not be elated by success or depressed by failure. I want only to take pleasure in what pleases you, and only to grieve at what displeases you.”
― Prayers for Today: A Yearlong Journey of Contemplative Prayer
― Prayers for Today: A Yearlong Journey of Contemplative Prayer
“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
“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
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