To say I love God but I do not pray much is like saying I love life but I do not breathe much. The only way I have found to survive my shame is to come at the problem from both sides, exploring two distinct possibilities: 1) that prayer is more than my idea of prayer and 2) that some of what I actually do in my life may constitute genuine prayer — Barbara Brown Taylor
Daily Manna
This nation is founded on blood like a city on swamps yet its dream has been beautiful and sometimes just that now grows brutal and heavy as a burned-out star. — Marge Piercy