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"A lot of us pray as if prayer is really twisting the arm of God or convincing God to do something. We think by saying more words we'll talk God into it. We think, 'If I say it one more time, God will agree with me. That very attitude is an alienating attitude. It keeps us in the role of doing it 'right or often enough to convince an unready or unwilling God. Wrong, wrong, wrong!19 minutes ago"
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"Jesus taught us how to pray because The Lord's Prayer is the spiritual image of the Ten Commandments."

"Is there any greater act then praying for all people from every nation?"

"Is there any purity like prayer?"

"Does god need our prayers? No. God doesn't need anything. A god in need is not a god indeed. So why do we pray? We pray out of a sense of gratitude. Prayer is a thank you. We feel better when we have offered our gratitude to the creator. Prayer is for our emotional and spiritual edification."

"Dear God,I asked that you clear my mind of any negative thoughts so my heart can run free; so I may look at the world with a clearer understanding of your beautiful creation. Cleanse my heart dear God so I may always look through the wonder light you shine upon us. In Jesus name Amen."

"One of the greatest gifts to give our friends and others is a prayer."

"Dear God, I'm afraid of the things that I don't understand. I'm even afraid of you, God. Please open my heart to your love. Show me how to understand and how to live with you each day. I don't want to look weak, God, but the truth is I am weak because I don't know you at all. Please come into my heart and allow me to push aside my pride and accept you totally into my life. Thank you for saving me. In Jesus's name, I pray, amen."

"My prayer is that God would continue to love me enough to refuse to answer the prayers I'm praying that I shouldn't be praying."
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"Your heart has to be prepared ahead of time through faith and prayer and grace and mercy and love and forgiveness so you can keep your heart open in hell, when hell happens."

"Faith for Jesus is the opposite of anxiety. If you are anxious, if you are trying to control everything, if you are worried about many things, you don't have faith, according to Jesus. You do not trust that God is good and on your side. You're trying to do it all yourself, lift yourself up by your own bootstraps."

"God created us for love, for union, for forgiveness and compassion and, yet, that has not been our storyline. That has not been our history."

"Our religious institutions are not giving very many men access to credible encounters with the holy or even with their own wholeness. We largely give men mandates, signposts, scaffolding and appealing images that tend to create religious identity and boundaries, but from the outside."

"The human ego prefers anything, just about anything, to falling, or changing, or dying. The ego is that part of you that loves the status quo ' even when it's not working. It attaches to past and present and fears the future."
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