Prayer is the language of the people who are in trouble and know it, and who believe or hope that God can get them out...Issac Bashevis Singer once said, "I only pray when I am in trouble. But I am in trouble all the time, and so I pray all the time." The recipe for obeying St. Paul's "Pray without ceasing" is not a strict ascetical regimen but a watchful recognition of the trouble we are in.
-Eugene Peterson, Answering God: The Psalms as Tools for Prayer, 36-37.
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Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Idle Thoughts
I concluded that there were few troubling situations in contemporary life from which one could not distract oneself by wondering where the electricity had arrived from.
-Alain de Botton, The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work, 209.
-Alain de Botton, The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work, 209.
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