#on prayer

[ameretat]

Keep your mind firmly fixed on God, and the moment will come when the immortal Spirit touches your heart. Oh! That touch from the Holy of Holies! It cannot be compared to anything. It transports our spirit into the realm of the Uncreated Being. It wounds the heart with love, but a love different from what is usually meant by this term. The light of this love spreads over all creation, over the entire human race in its millennial existence. This love becomes perceptible to the physical heart, but by nature, it is spiritual, uncreated, for it comes from God.

— Saint Sophrony the Athonite, On Prayer: Reflections of a Modern Saint

[faeriefully]

Should I pray daily for the salvation of people I care about? And when do I know when to stop praying about it?

Yes. Scripture tells us many times to pray at all times, without ceasing. And Christ gave an example that consistency is heard by the Lord (Luke 18:1-8).

When they breathe their last. Until they die, there is hope.

Pray for your loved ones. Pray Deo Volente.

[ameretat-raw]

Everything that is absurd and terrible on the world stage, everything that is mundane and tedious in the daily life of humans, forms a contradictory yet nonetheless grandiose picture. Everything, both the noble and the petty, is reflected in one way or another in each of us. From countless contrasts—evil and good, darkness and light, sadness and joy, madness and wisdom, love and hate, weakness and strength, construction and destruction, birth and death—a global vision of Being is formed. Subjected to innumerable torments and insults, humanity is scorned; its dignity is trampled underfoot. In the face of this spectacle, the soul falls into despair. And suddenly, the words of Christ, "A man is born into the world," reach it in their eternal meaning, a meaning eternal even for God. And, under the influence of this joy, it forgets all the sicknesses and afflictions of the past.

— Saint Sophrony the Athonite, On Prayer: Reflections of a Modern Saint

[audreythevaliant]

[draculovemp3]

— Jeff Lindsay, Dearly Devoted Dexter

[scionsthings]

Rewatching Arcane

[irishyuri]

sesbian lex

[str1wberry7thyme]

His tie isn’t even on correctly, Mumbo’s never going to see the light of day ever again

[buffyannesummrs]

okay lizzie???

[gurokichi]

Be possessive over me. I like being reminded that I belong to you, that I’m yours alone.

[spectre777]

[ameretat]

If the Lord was tempted, we too will necessarily have to pass through the fire of temptations. If the Lord was persecuted and hunted down, we will be persecuted as well, by the same forces that persecuted Him. If the Lord suffered and was crucified, we will inevitably suffer; if we truly follow Him in the paths of our hearts, we too will be crucified, though perhaps on invisible crosses. If the Lord was transfigured, we too will be transfigured, even here on earth, provided that our inner aspirations resemble His. If the Lord died and rose again, all those who believe in Him will also pass through death; they will lie in tombs and then rise again as He did, provided they have died as He did. The faithful will first rise in their souls, then, on the day of the universal resurrection, in their bodies. If, after His resurrection in a glorious body, the Lord was lifted up to the heavens and sat at the right hand of God, we too will be lifted up to the heavens in the glorious body of our resurrection by the power of the Holy Spirit, and we will become co-heirs with Christ and partakers of the divine nature.

— Saint Sophrony the Athonite, On Prayer: Reflections of a Modern Saint

[faeriefully]

What does this teach us, but the sacred importance and necessity of prayer? We may be certain that whatever God has made prominent in His Word, He intended to be conspicuous in our lives. If He has said much about prayer, it is because He knows we have much need of it. So deep are our necessities, that until we are in heaven we must not cease to pray.

Dost thou want nothing? Then, I fear thou dost not know thy poverty. Hast thou no mercy to ask of God? Then, may the Lord's mercy show thee thy misery!

A prayerless soul is a Christless soul. Prayer is the lisping of the believing infant, the shout of the fighting believer, the requiem of the dying saint falling asleep in Jesus. It is the breath, the watchword, the comfort, the strength, the honour of a Christian. If thou be a child of God, thou wilt seek thy Father's face, and live in thy Father's love. Pray that this year thou mayst be holy, humble, zealous, and patient; have closer communion with Christ, and enter oftener into the banqueting-house of His love. Pray that thou mayst be an example and a blessing unto others, and that thou mayst live more to the glory of thy Master. The motto for this year must be, "Continue in prayer."

— Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, Jan 2 morning

[liivn]

medieval heart-shaped prayer book in a medieval painting and in real life

[incognitopolls]

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