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Prayer Definition
(n.) One who prays; a supplicant.
(v. i.) The act of praying, or of asking a favor; earnest request or entreaty; hence, a petition or memorial addressed to a court or a legislative body.
(v. i.) The act of addressing supplication to a divinity, especially to the true God; the offering of adoration, confession, supplication, and thanksgiving to the Supreme Being; as, public prayer; secret prayer.
(v. i.) The form of words used in praying; a formula of supplication; an expressed petition; especially, a supplication addressed to God; as, a written or extemporaneous prayer; to repeat one's prayers.
The more you concentration on God, the longer your conversation with him lasts and the holier his consacration will be on you. Let your communication with him be controlled by your committment.
Israelmore Ayivor
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It looked as though the leaves of the autumn forest had taken flight, and were pouring down the valley like a waterfall, like a tidal wave, all the leaves of the hardwoods from here to Hudson’s Bay. I...
Annie Dillard
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beauty, belief, consciousness, creation, curiosity, disbelief, energy, enoughness, epiphany, exploration
I have often noticed that these things, which obsess me, neither bother nor impress other people even slightly. I am horribly apt to approach some innocent at a gathering, and like the ancient mariner...
Annie Dillard
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beauty, belief, consciousness, creation, curiosity, disbelief, energy, enoughness, epiphany, exploration
A Strange Prayer:Dear Lord, I, the self searching illusion, has seen and experienced the outer world:relationships,success and failure,true friends, strangers and backbiters.I lived the different emot...
Saurabh Sharma
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Xerxes, I read, ‘halted his unwieldy army for days that he might contemplate to his satisfaction’ the beauty of a single sycamore. You are Xerxes in Persia. Your army spreads on a vast and arid penep...
Annie Dillard
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beauty, belief, consciousness, creation, curiosity, disbelief, energy, enoughness, epiphany, exploration
Last year I had a very unusual experience. I was awake, with my eyes closed, when I had a dream. It was a small dream about time. I was dead, I guess, in deep blank space high up above many white star...
Annie Dillard
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beauty, belief, consciousness, creation, curiosity, disbelief, energy, enoughness, epiphany, exploration
Today is the winter solstice. The planet tilts just so to its star, lists and holds circling in a fixed tension between veering and longing, and spins helpless, exalted, in and out of that fleet blazi...
Annie Dillard
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beauty, belief, consciousness, creation, curiosity, disbelief, energy, enoughness, epiphany, exploration