(Prayers) not prayed by people trying to understand themselves. They are not the record of people searching for the meaning of life. They were prayed by people who understood that ... God, not their feelings, was the centre ... Human experiences might provoke the prayers, but they do not conditioned them ... It is not simply a belief in God that conditions these prayers... but A doctrine of God- Eugene H Peterson Answering God page 14
There is a place for silence before God ... After we have spoken to him, while joy at God's love invades the soul. - J IPacker and Carolyn Nystrom, Praying: fining our way through duty to delight.
Very soon the end of your life will be at hand: consider,
therefore, the state of your soul. Today a man is here;
tomorrow he is gone. . . .
You should order your every deed and thought, as though
today were the day of your death. Had you a good
conscience, death would hold no terrors for you.
--Thomas A' Kempis (1380-1471) _The Imitation of Christ_ [c. 1420]; Book 1, Chapter 23
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