God is the only one who listens to her... she is the prototype of the devout woman who perseveres in prayer convinced that it will be heard... How many favours each of us could tell of if we recalled with gratitude the gifts we have received in order to praise God for them

And we pray and we pray and we pray and we pray.Everyday everyday everyday everyday

May your GodExtend to youThe same LoveAnd CompassionYou have ProvidedTo Others.

I liked this God very much because you hardly had to talk to it and it never talked back. Blue Like Jazz Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

Leaders in touch with heaven can move earth

On surviving on the raft for 47 days We had truly made it on a wing and prayer.

What was more needed by this old man who divided the leisure hours of his life where he had so little leisure between gardening in the daytime and contemplation at night Was not this narrow enclosure with the sky for a background enough to enable him to adore God in his most beautiful as well as in his most sublime works Indeed is not that all and what more can be desired A little garden to walk and immensity to reflect upon. At his feet something to cultivate and gather above his head something to study and meditate upon a few flowers on the earth and all the stars in the sky.

... love for our neighbours does not die the minute we enter heaven it intensifies.

The Lord is my shepherdI shall not want him for longHe maketh me to lie down in green pasturesand there are no green pasturesHe leadeth me beside still watersand still waters run deep

Upon the lips of babes asleep I saw light embracing light and so allowed my syllables to rest there as a prayer they might sing in their dreams...