"Prayer is a relationship; half the job is……" — Elizabeth Gilbert
"Prayer is a relationship; half the job is mine. If I want transformation, but can't even be bothered to articulate what, exactly, I'm aiming for, how will it ever occur? Half the benefit of prayer is in the asking itself, in the offering of a clearly posed and well-considered intention. If you don't have this, all your pleas and desires are boneless, floppy, inert; they swirl at your feet in a cold fog and never lift."
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Elizabeth Gilbert
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507 Quotes by Elizabeth Gilbert
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That competition and the struggle for existence is the mechanism behind this state of perpetual change.
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