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The Cinderella of the church of today is the prayer meeting. This handmaid of the Lord is unloved and unwooed because she is not dripping with the pearls of intellectualism, nor glamorous with the silks of philosophy; neither is she enchanting with the tiara of psychology.
— Leonard Ravenhill
No man is greater than his prayer life. The
— Leonard Ravenhill
Prayer makes the soul tender.
— Leonard Ravenhill
He who would teach the people to pray must first himself be given to prayer.
— Leonard Ravenhill
The sweet hour of prayer as a mid-week breather in the church has been reduced to a sweet twenty minutes of prayer.
— Leonard Ravenhill
Reading seeks for the sweetness of a blessed life, meditation perceives it, prayer asks for it, contemplation tastes it.
— Leonard Sweet
The Book of Life says, "As a man thinketh, so is he, and as he continues to think, so he remains."6 Earl Nightingale asked the question: "What's wrong with men today?" He answered the question by saying, "Men simply don't think!" Not only do we often not think, but even when we do think, we think with the world mind. This is why we must re-think our lives!
— Les Brown
Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
May we have communion with God in the secret of our hearts, and find Him to be to us as a little sanctuary.
— Charles Spurgeon
Mindfulness is often spoken of as the heart of Buddhist meditation. It's not about Buddhism, but about paying attention. That's what all meditation is, no matter what tradition or particular technique is used.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
We are graced with a greater capacity for direct contact with our own higher power than most of us are in the habit of using.
— Marianne Williamson
I wake up a little before six, and I go right to my study. That's where I do my daily reading of the Oswald Chambers book, 'My Utmost for His Highest.'
— Jerry Falwell