Anything is a blessing which makes us pray.
Interpretation
Anything that brings us to prayer is a blessing, as it deepens our connection with the divine.
This quote suggests that experiences or situations that compel us to pray and reflect are invaluable gifts. In moments of gratitude or hardship, the act of turning to prayer invites a deeper awareness of our blessings and challenges, reinforcing a spiritual connection that enhances our lives.
In practice
In a speech about the power of gratitude, one could quote, 'Anything is a blessing which makes us pray.' to emphasize the importance of spiritual reflection.
Amusement should be used to do us good “like a medicine”: it must never be used as the food of the man...Many have had all holy thoughts and gracious resolutions stamped out by perpetual trifling. Pleasure so called is the murderer of thought. This is the age of excessive amusement: everybody craves for it, like a babe for its rattle.
When you see no present advantage, walk by faith and not by sight. Do God the honor to trust Him when it comes to matters of loss for the sake of principle.
It is far easier to fight with sin in public than to pray against it in private.
You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.
After faith comes repentance, or, rather, repentance is faith's twin brother and is born at the same time.
["All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant."] The original Hebrew word that has been translated "paths" means "well-worn roads' or "wheel tracks," such ruts as wagons make when they go down our green roads in wet weather and sink in up to the axles. God's ways are at times like heavy wagon tracks that cut deep into our souls, yet all of them are merciful.
The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you're talking about.
There is no persuasiveness more effectual than the transparency of a single heart, of a sincere life.
I give myself very good advice, but I very seldom follow it.
Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the same well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears. And how else can it be? The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven? And is not the lute that soothes your spirit, the very wood that was hollowed with knives?
If money and material things become the center of our lives, they seize us and make us slaves.
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