Gods side is determined not by geography but by those who do His will. If Germans English Japanese and Americans prayed right they would all be praying for the same intention Thy Will be done on earth as it is in Heaven. And what is that Will The reign of Justice and Charity in the hearts of men. Through a prayerful contemplation of war we will see not soldiers of different nations in combat but one great family quarreling fighting wounding and all in need of the peace and charity of Christ which we hope to obtain by our supplications.

The only trouble is that in the spiritual life there are no tricks and no shortcuts. Those who imagine that they can discover spiritual gimmicks and put them to work for themselves usually ignore Gods will and his grace.

Ill pray for you.Thats very kind of you.I cant spare you a whole rosary you know. Just a decade. Ive got such a long list of people. I take them in order and they get a decade about once a week.

Public prayers of are of little value unless they are founded on or followed up by private praying.

Prayer will never do our work for us what it will do is to strengthen us for work which must be done.

Every morning I was renewed though. Air and light healed me over and over. I got to where I depended on it. When I was feeling my worst I would step out into the yard and put my hands on the branches of the little redbud. It made me feel like I was saying a prayer to do this. I know that sounds like foolishness but that little tree was like an altar for me. I stood there in the cold of early winter wishing for the redbud to bear leaves so that I might put my face against them.

I had no tears to shed nor a prayer for the deceased... There is no hope for the hopeless.

Prayer in private results in boldness in public.

Some of the most challenging work a suicide survivor can do is to pray. To pray fully survivors must bring all of themselves to the prayer their anger disappointment fears insecurities and whys. I bring all of me into an encounter with God aware that nothing in the human experience or the human response to the ambushes of life is alien to God.

Sixteen of the thirty-eight parables of Jesus deal with money. One out of ten verses in the New Testament deals with that subject. Scripture offers about five hundred verses on prayer fewer than five hundred on faith and over two thousand on money. The believers attitude toward money and possessions is determinative.