Prayer



"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

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