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Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to be praying, but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?
-Lily Tomlin
Too often we see prayer as a last resort rather than as our first thought. People will say, “I guess all we can do now is pray!” like that's the last thing, horrible thing to do. And your friend says, “Has it come to that?!?! Is it so hopeless that all we can do is pray?" -Rick Warren
We are usually surrounded by so much outer noise that it is hard to truly hear our God when he is speaking to us. We have often become deaf, unable to know when God calls us and unable to understand in which direction he calls us. Thus, our lives have become absurd ... When, however, we learn to listen, our lives become obedient.
-Henri Nouwen
A man had a habit of grumbling at the food his wife placed before him at family meals. Then he would ask the blessing. One day after his usual combination complaint-prayer, his little girl asked, "Daddy, does God hear us when we pray?"
"Why, of course," he replied. "He hears us every time we pray."
She on this a moment, and asked, "Does he hear everything we say the rest of the time?"
"Yes, dear, every word," he replied, encouraged that he had inspired his daughter to be curious about spiritual matters. However, his pride was quickly turned to humility when she asked:
"Then which does God believe?"
I strongly suspect that if we saw all the difference even the tiniest of our prayers make, and all the people those little prayers were destined to affect, and all the consequences of those prayers down through the centuries, we would be so paralyzed with awe at the power of prayer that we would be unable to get up off our knees for the rest of our lives. -Dr. Peter Kreeft, Professor of Philosophy, Boston College
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