If prayers emitted light youd see ours Liberty students from space.

We both just stood there. I let the breeze brush against my skin the sun release the tension in my muscles. It was as close as I had felt to God in a long time. Its like were praying Celeste whispered. Only were not saying anything.

You must learn to tell worry from thought and thought from prayer. Sometimes a light will go from your life and a thought becomes a prayer til you are strong enough to stand under the weight of your own thought again.

Havent my past sermons taught you anythingYes Emilie threw at him that you pray for those who are close to God and those who arent who need Him you toss away like garbage.

There is something in us that fears prayer as a maggot fears light. We must do violence to this voice for it is not ourselves. It is our Enemy.

Some part of me broke in prayer that morning and some part of me was reborn as I gave myself fully and completely to prayer and to God in that moment.

Prayer is making space available for God to do beautiful things with your life.

The ascetic remembrance of death is opposed to akedia to anxiety to depression and becomes a powerful reminder of eternity its joyful nostalgia.

If you cannot recollect yourself continuously do so once a day at least in the morning or in the evening. In the morning make a resolution and in the evening examine yourself on what you have said this day what you have done and thought for in these things perhaps you have often offended God and those about you.

The music the prayers the bowing and rising the incense--all of it was breaking down my defenses. Thats what good liturgy does. It breaks your heart open and turns you toward God.