A Quote by Henri Nouwen

As we are involved in unceasing thinking, so we are called to unceasing prayer.

Henri Nouwen

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Involved Prayer Thinking

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Henri Nouwen
Dutch - Priest
January 24, 1932 - September 21, 1996

Prayer is first of all listening to God. It's openness. God is always speaking; he's always doing something. Prayer is to enter into that activity... Convert your thoughts into prayer. As we are involved in unceasing thinking, so we are called to unceasing prayer. The difference is not that prayer is thinking about other things, but that prayer is thinking in dialogue,... a conversation with God.

Henri Nouwen

The leaves did not stir on the trees, grasshoppers chirruped, and the monotonous hollow sound of the sea rising up from below, spoke of the peace, of the eternal sleep awaiting us. So it must have sounded when there was no Yalta, no Oreanda here; so it sounds now, and it will sound as indifferently and monotonously when we are all no more. And in this constancy, in this complete indifference to the life and death of each of us, there lies hid, perhaps, a pledge of our eternal salvation, of the unceasing movement of life upon earth, of unceasing progress towards perfection.

Anton Chekhov

The taming and domestication of religion is one of the unceasing chores of civilization.

Christopher Hitchens

Unceasing prayer is the unbroken union of the soul with God, so that life from God flows into our life; and from our life, purity and holiness flow back to God.

Ellen G. White

Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.

Gian Carlo Menotti

All things are moral; and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God's great universe.

Dallas Willard

Sleep. To lie down and shut out the noise, the fear, the unceasing misery.

Tad Williams

To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods.

Robert A. Heinlein

There is nothing which persevering effort and unceasing and diligent care cannot accomplish.

Seneca the Younger

Without the blessing of the Lord, your best endeavors will do no good. He has the hearts of all men in His hands, and except He touch the hearts of your children by His Spirit, you will weary yourself to no purpose. Water, therefore, the seed you sow on their minds with unceasing prayer.