Cartoon – Trickle Down Prayers

“Pray and learn to pray! . . . Deepen your knowledge of the Word of the Living God by reading and meditating on the Scriptures.” – Pope Francis
Read more“As my prayer became more attentive and inward, I had less and less to say. I finally became completely silent…. This is how it is. To pray does not mean to listen to oneself speaking. Prayer involves becoming silent, and being silent, and waiting until God is heard.” – Soren Kierkegaard
Read more“He didn’t know exactly what to pray for; in which he was like most other people. For our real prayer, if we had the wits or the courage to formulate it, would be a general plea for everything to be all right forever.” – Angela Thirkell
Read more“Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.” – Abraham Joshua Heschel
Read more“You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your abundance.” – Kahlil Gibran
Read more“Most people do not pray; they only beg.” – George Bernard Shaw
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