"Prayer is acknowledging that we are always in the presence of God." -- Desmond Tutu "Prayer is the language of Christian community." --Henri Nouwen "Prayer is yearning, beseeching, beholding." -- Julian of Norwich "Attention, taken to its highest degree, is the same thing as prayer. It presupposes faith and love. Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer." --Simone Weil
"They devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers. Awe came upon everyone, because many wonders and signs were being done by the apostles. All who believed were together and had all things in common; they would sell their possessions and goods and distribute the proceeds to all, as any had need. Day by day, as they spent time together in the temple, they broke bread at home and ate their food with glad and generous hearts, praising God and having the goodwill of all the people. And day by day the Lord added to their number those who were being saved." --Acts 2:42-47
My favorite are the last two. The second to last takes place in a cave and not a manger, and the last one is more abstract and surreal than the rest.
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