Focus Quote by David G. Benner Download Open image ““We do not pray so that we can get God's attention. We pray so that God will get our attention.”” — David G. Benner ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Focus God Prayer
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“The most important thing is not to get what we want in prayer, but to accomplish what God wants.” — Stormie Omartian Copy Share Image
“Attention, taken to its highest degree, is the same thing as prayer. It presupposes faith and love. Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.” — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
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“Love reconnects us to life. The truth of Christ's life is that life is love and love is life. There is no genuine life… — David G. Benner Copy Share Image
“Self-acceptance always precedes genuine self-surrender and self-transformation.” — David G. Benner Copy Share Image
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“Teresa of Avila says that the important thing in prayer is not to think much but to love much. The head is not a… — David G. Benner Copy Share Image
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“If we are honest, most of us have to admit that prayer is often more of an obligation than something arising spontaneously from desire… — David G. Benner Copy Share Image
“Prayerful paying attention is not scrunching up our willpower and tightening our focus, but simply opening our self to what we encounter. This makes… — David G. Benner Copy Share Image
“silence is God’s first language; everything else is a poor translation.” — David G. Benner Copy Share Image
“AN ANCIENT AID TO DEEP KNOWING OF OUR SIN One tool that many people have found helpful in identifying basic sin tendencies is an… — David G. Benner Copy Share Image
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Enlightened people live in very charged states of attention, with a tremendous power circuiting through them. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image