"Prayer is a form of communication between God and man and man and God....I am always impressed by the fact that it is recorded that the only thing that the disciples asked Jesus to teach them how to do was to pray."

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Source : "Disciplines of the Spirit". Book by Howard Thurman, 1977.

Howard Thurman

#Jesus Quotes #Prayer Quotes #Communication Quotes

“The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.”
“I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before, not even a Sailor in a slow-sailing ship.”
“Psychology assumes that "things" are and "minds" are; and that, within certain limits determined by the so-called "nature" of both, they act causally upon each other.”
“Those who talk too much about race no longer have it in them.”
“I believe in the future resolution of these two states, dream and reality, which are seemingly so contradictory, into a kind of absolute reality, a surreality, if one may so speak.”
“Indeed I have always found that the only thing in regard to Toronto which faraway people know for certain is that McGill University is in it.”
“I mean, anyone can let Danger out but the really clever thing is finding somewhere for it to go afterwards.”
“If people are failing, they look inept. If people are succeeding, they look strong and good and competent. That's the 'halo effect.' Your first impression of a thing sets up your subsequent beliefs. If the company looks inept to you, you may assume everything else they do is inept.”

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