I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
- Topic: Action, Prayer
- Location: Olympic National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.
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Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.
However many holy words you read, However many you speak, What good will they do you If you do not act on upon them?
Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
Praise God, from whom all blessings flow! Praise Him, all creatures here below! Praise Him above, ye heavenly host! Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost!
When the world pushes you to your knees, you’re in the perfect position to pray.
Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.
The fewer the words, the better the prayer.
If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst forth at once in the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One.
Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently.
Whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.