Carrel: prayer a source of strength

Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Meditation:
    And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words.
    —Matthew 6:7 (NIV)
Quotation:
    [Continued from yesterday]
    Too many people regard prayer as a formalized routine of words, a refuge for weaklings, or a childish petition for material things. We sadly undervalue prayer when we conceive it in these terms, just as we should underestimate rain by describing it as something that fills the birdbath in our garden. Properly understood, prayer is a mature activity indispensable to the fullest development of personality—the ultimate integration of man’s highest faculties. Only in prayer do we achieve that complete and harmonious assembly of body, mind and spirit which gives the frail human reed its unshakable strength.
    ... Alexis Carrel (1873-1944), “Prayer is Power”, from The Reader’s Digest, March, 1941, included in The Questing Spirit, Halford E. Luccock & Frances Brentano, New York: Coward-McCann, 1947, p. 645 (see the book)
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, You are my strength. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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