Favorite Sayings and Prayers

Guardian Angel Prayer (For my grandchildren)

Angel of God, my guardian dear,
to whom God's love commits me here;
Watch over me throughout the night,
keep me safe within your sight.

--- Traditional

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A Prayer For Peace

O God, you will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are fixed on you; for in returning and rest we shall be saved; in quietness and trust shall be our strength.

--- Isaiah 26:3; 30:15 

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Only connect the prose and the passion, and both shall be exalted - Forster

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Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves - Rilke

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MY LORD GOD, I have no idea where I am going.
I do not see the road ahead of me.
I cannot know for certain where it will end.
Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think that I am following your will does not mean that I am actually doing so.
But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you.
And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing.
I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire.
And I know that if I do this you will lead me by the right road though I may know nothing about it.
Therefore will I trust you always though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death.
I will not fear, for you are ever with me, and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.

- Thomas Merton, "Thoughts in Solitude"

Comments

[Allison]

Thank you very much for giving us the chance of reading so much about you and your intimacy.
May I publish on my profile on Facebook your statement of Rilke??
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Allison