believe that prayer gives me a chance to become introspective on my responsibilities as well as my needs.
I don't know if I could meditate and pray at the same time. But I agree that prayer and the circumstances around it do allow opportunity for introspection. If you are taking advantage of that time, I would ignore folks who suggest that praying is a crutch. 99% of us don't spend sufficient time being introspective.
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846)
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. Martin Luther King
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend. Thomas Jefferson
Seems to me if its clear that certain things that require ancient dates couldn't possibly be true, we are on our way to throwing out all those ancient dates on the basis of the actual evidence. -- Faith
Some of us are worried about just how much damage he will do in his last couple of weeks as president, to make it easier for the NY Times and Washington post to try to destroy Trump's presidency. -- marc9000
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