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We learn the language of prayer by immersing ourselves in the language that God uses to reveal Himself to us.

We learn the language of prayer by immersing ourselves in the language that God uses to reveal Himself to us.
– Eugene H Peterson

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  1. Prayer is a way of language practiced in the presence of God in which we become more than ourselves while remaining ourselves. – Eugene H Peterson
  2. God uses language to create and command us. – Eugene H Peterson
  3. The church is the primary arena in which we learn that glory does not consist in what we do for God but in what God does for us. – Eugene H Peterson
  4. Words reveal your beliefs and intentions. Actions reveal your character. When they are in alignment, they reveal your greatest life. – Steve Maraboli
  5. Language consists in equal parts of speaking and silence. – Eugene H Peterson
  6. The soul accepts the mystery within and all around, immersing itself in it, celebrating it. – Jay Woodman
  7. We look upon prayer simply as a means of getting things for ourselves, but the biblical purpose of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself. – Oswald Chambers
  8. Music is the language of the heart, the language of the soul, the language of nature and the language of the universe. – Debasish Mridha
  9. Preaching reveals God in action here and now — for ME. – Eugene H Peterson
  10. There is nothing more common than for people who want to talk about God to lose interest in the people they are talking to. – Eugene H Peterson
  11. God’s desire is to reveal Himself to everyone, yet He will manifest Himself only to those who love Him. – Sunday Adelaja
  12. Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks they can talk about language. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  13. Whilst lovers: to control her man, a woman uses (the man’s access to) her ??????. When ex-lovers: she uses (the man’s access to) their kids. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
  14. Parables release the adrenaline of urgency into our bloodstream. – Eugene H Peterson
  15. My job is not to solve people’s problems or make them happy, but to help them see the grace operating in their lives. – Eugene H Peterson
  16. The devil does some of his best work behind stained glass. – Eugene H Peterson
  17. Self-justification is a verbal defense for restoring the appearance of righteousness without doing anything about the substance. – Eugene H Peterson
  18. The temptations that use the raw material of good for evil can continue unrecognized for a long time without awareness. – Eugene H Peterson
  19. The end is where we start from. T.S. Eliot – Eugene H Peterson
  20. Spontaneities offer one kind of pleasure and taste of sanctity, repetitions another equally pleasurable and holy. – Eugene H Peterson
  21. We do not become less needy, less dependent when we pray; we become more needy, more dependent, which is to say, more human. – Eugene H Peterson
  22. Isn’t it interesting that all of the biblical prophets and psalmists were poets? – Eugene H Peterson
  23. You don’t make your words true by embellishing them with religious lace. In making your speech sound more religious, it becomes less true. – Eugene H Peterson
  24. Without stories we end up with stereotypes — a flat earth with flat cardboard figures that have no texture or depth, no INTERIOR. – Eugene H Peterson
  25. Some people use language as a mask. And some want to create designed language that appears to reveal them but does not. – Anne Deavere Smith
  26. I thought parenting was going to reveal my strengths, never realizing that God had ordained it to reveal my weaknesses. – Elyse M Fitzpatrick
  27. I am convinced that when a man sincerely searches for God with all his heart, God will reveal Himself in some way. – Billy Graham
  28. Rouse him, and learn the principle of his activity or inactivity. Force him to reveal himself, so as to find out his vulnerable spots. – Sun Tzu
  29. Prayer is speaking to God-” but sometimes He uses our times of prayerful silence to speak to us in return. – Billy Graham
  30. Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again. – Charles ens
  31. It wasn’t that Henry was less of himself in English. He was less of himself out loud. His native language was thought. – Maggie Stiefvater
  32. It wasn’t that Henry was less of himself in English. He was less of himself out loud. His native language was thought. – Maggie Stiefvater
  33. The language of marriage is often a language of ownership, not a language of partnership. – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  34. All women speak two languages:-¨the language of men-¨and the language of silent suffering.-¨ Some women speak a third,-¨the language of queens. – Mohja Kahf
  35. Language comes first. It’s not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven’t got language, you can’t be conscious. – Alan Moore
  36. The German language is so sonorous, isn’t it? Beautiful language…the language of poetry. Angry, angry poetry. – John Oliver
  37. Micro: Letters create words. Words create language. Language, we are told, permits knowledge & expression. Language is what we are. Are we jailed? – Anthony North
  38. God will only reveal Himself to you when you begin to regard His people – Sunday Adelaja
  39. Mind in language are inseparable. If we violate our language we violate ourselves. – William Zinsser
  40. Mind in language are inseparable. If we violate our language we violate ourselves. – William Zinsser

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