Pray, even if you feel nothing, see nothing. For when you are dry, empty, sick or weak, at such a time is your prayer most pleasing to God, even though you may find little joy in it. This is true of all believing prayer.
JULIAN OF NORWICHPrayer is the deliberate and persevering action of the soul. It is true and enduring, and full of grace. Prayer fastens the soul to God and makes it one with God’s will.
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God loved us before he made us; and his love has never diminished and never shall.
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That which is impossible to thee is not impossible to me: I shall save my word in all things and I shall make all things well.
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Lord Jesus, I have heard you say: ‘Sin is necessary but all will be well, and all will be well, and every kind of thing will be well’.
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If any such lover be in earth which is continually kept from falling, I know it not: for it was not shewed me. But this was shewed: that in falling and in rising we are ever preciously kept in one Love.
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Because of the Shewing I am not good but if I love God the better: and in as much as ye love God the better, it is more to you than to me.
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God is all that is good, as to my sight, and the goodness that each thing hath, it is He.
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The goodness of God is the highest object of prayer and it reaches down to our lowest need.
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But for I am a woman should I therefore live that I should not tell you the goodness of God?
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He [Jesus] did not say, ‘You will never have a rough passage, you will never be over-strained, you will never feel uncomfortable,’ but he did say, ‘You will never be overcome.
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Our Lord is the ground from whom our prayer grows and in his love and grace he himself gives us our prayers.
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A great thing shall I make hereof in Heaven of endless worship and everlasting joys.
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He that made all things for love, by the same love keepeth them, and shall keep them without end.
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The Elements of Prayer|Its ground: God, by whose goodness it springeth in us. |Its use: to turn our will to His will. |Its end: to be made one with Him and like to Him in all things.
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We are in God and God whom we do not see is in us.
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Prayer is a new, gracious, lasting will of the soul united and fast-bound to the will of God by the precious and mysterious working of the Holy Ghost.
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