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Thoughtful quote on prayer worth meditating on.

“To be human is to pray, to meditate both day and night on the love and activity of God. We are called to be continuously formed and transformed by the thought of God within us. Prayer is a disciplined dedication to paying attention. Without the single-minded attentiveness of prayer we will rarely hear anything worth repeating or catch a vision worth asking anyone else to gaze upon.”

—From The Spiritual Life, by John H. Westerhoff III and John D. Eusden (Seabury).

Posted on: Feb 1, 2004
Last modified on: Jan 9, 2007

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