Is not prayer the intensely personal struggle within each disciple, and among us collectively, to resist the despair and distractions that cause us to practice unbelief, to abandon or avoid the way of Jesus?
When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.
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Mahatma Gandhi
She wanted to lose herself in him. To tie his arms around her like a tourniquet. If she showed him how much she needed him, he'd run away.
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Rainbow Rowell
Life ... is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.
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William Shakespeare
Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you'll always find despair.
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Irvin D. Yalom
Fame you'll be famous, as famous as can be, with everyone watching you win on TV, Except when they don't because sometimes they won't..
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Dr. Seuss
More Quotes By Ched Myers
Is not prayer the intensely personal struggle within each disciple, and among us collectively, to resist the despair and distractions that cause us to practice unbelief, to abandon or avoid the way of Jesus?
What is unbelief but the despair, dictated by the dominant powers, that nothing can really change?
To pray is to learn to believe in in a transformation of self and world, which seems, empirically, impossible.
