“Prayer is like breathing. If you pray much, you will become spiritually brighter and your sensitivity to distinguish good and evil will become keen.”
True Father
“Prayer is like breathing. If you pray much, you will become spiritually brighter and your sensitivity to distinguish good and evil will become keen.”
True Father
How many hours do you spend eating every day? Would it not be almost an hour and a half? You spend on the average one and a half hours eating. For spiritual work, you must invest much more than the amount of time you spend on eating. I have come to understand this fact through numerous years of my life of faith. (70 171, 1974.2.9)
Don’t let your busy schedule stop you to connect with God through prayer.
“…True prayer is measured by weight, not by length. A single groan before God may have more fullness of prayer in it than a fine oration of great length.” C. H. Spurgeon (1834-1892)
We have started a prayer condition to support the ESGD summer activities. We offer 3 quotes instead of one; they are good reflection points about prayer.
“Those who pray do not make serious mistakes; they know what to do.” True Father
“All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness. The important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.”
Dalai Lama
“Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities, because, as has been said, ‘it is the quality which guarantees all others.’”
– Winston Churchill.
“Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or the darkness of destructive selfishness. This is the judgement. Life’s most persistent question is, what are you doing for others?”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Quote of the Week:
“For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.”
– Neil deGrasse Tyson