When the world pushes you to your knees, you’re in the perfect position to pray.
- Topic: Adversity, Prayer
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.
Listen with ears of tolerance, see through the eyes of compassion, speak with language of love.
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
One drop of your kindness makes the ocean sweet.
As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.
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The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Waves are inspiring not because they rise and fall, but because each time they fall they never fail to rise again.
Acceptance doesn’t mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there’s got to be a way through it.
Put your greatest possession on the tallest shelf, so if you fall you have something to reach for.
The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
Whenever sorrow comes, be kind to it. For God has placed a pearl in sorrow’s hand.
Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.
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!
None can believe how powerful prayer is, and what it is able to effect, but those who have learned it by experience.
The fewer the words, the better the prayer.
Whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
If you have no time for prayer and meditation, you will have lots of time for sickness and trouble.
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.
Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.
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.
I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land, or by water.
