"Prayer, in it's simplest form, is finding out what God wants to do and then asking Him to do it."

-- Graham Cooke

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“We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.”
“Why is it that some Christians cross land and sea, continents and cultures, as missionaries? What on earth impels them? It is not in order to commend a civilization, an institution or an ideology, but rather a person, Jesus Christ, whom they believe to be unique.”
“Why couldn't she be part of that family? rent a room in someone else's life.”

Source : Kiran Desai (2007). “The Inheritance of Loss”, p.233, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“‎W. H. Auden once suggested that to understand your own country you need to have lived in at least two others. One can say something similar for periods of time: to understand your own century you need to have come to terms with at least two others. The key to learning something about the past might be a ruin or an archive but the means whereby we may understand it is--and always will be--ourselves.”
“Every one of us can make a contribution. And quite often we are looking for the big things and forget that, wherever we are, we can make a contribution. Sometimes I tell myself, I may only be planting a tree here, but just imagine what's happening if there are billions of people out there doing something. Just imagine the power of what we can do.”
“Even the once simple home mortgage now has so many flavors and styles and variations that it is difficult for people to make a decision.”
“Useful men, who do useful things, don't mind being treated as useless. But the useless always judge themselves as being important and hide all their incompetence behind authority.”
“I'm not as angry as I used to be. But I can get in touch with that anger pretty quickly if I feel my space is being invaded or somebody is not treating me with the respect that I think I want.”

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