Monday, August 14, 2017

True Prayer is Utterly Truthful

Sister Ruth Burrows

“I admit there is a temptation to anxiety and discouragement. It could never lead me to give up prayer but I could waste time on it, dwelling on myself rather than throwing myself on God's love. Formerly, it could have prompted me to seek some other way of going about prayer that could ensure that this endlessly clacking mill [the mind] of mine had plenty to occupy it, but I have come to understand that, for me, it would be a way of hiding from God, hiding my own spiritual inadequacy from myself. Real prayer is utterly truthful. This is what makes it hard.”

Essence of Prayer, page 88

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