“Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts.”
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“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”
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“Lord, when I feel that what I'm doing is insignificant and unimportant, help me to remember that everything I do is significant and important in your eyes, because you love me and you put me here, and no one else can do what I am doing in exactly the way I do it.”
― Souvenirs of Solitude: Finding Rest in Abba's Embrace
― Souvenirs of Solitude: Finding Rest in Abba's Embrace
“I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power.”
― Letters of Thomas Jefferson
― Letters of Thomas Jefferson
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