the real "work" of prayer is to become silent and listen to the voice that says good things about me.

To gently push aside and silence the many voices that question my goodness and to trust that I will hear the voice of blessing-- that demands real effort.


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No Soul is identical – yet all Souls are unified.
J.M. HARRISON
The door', replied Maimie, 'will always, always be open, and mother will always be waiting at it for...
J.M. BARRIE
I’m gonna take a nap, Heaven,” he said, wanting away from her to clear his head. He didn’t lik...
J.M. DARHOWER
Who are you anyway? What are you even doing here?”
“Haven,” she said quietly, peeking at ...
J.M. DARHOWER
The last thing he ever said to me was, 'Just always be waiting for me, and then some night you will ...
J.M. BARRIE
So come with me, where dreams are born, and time is never planned. Just think of happy things, and y...
J.M. BARRIE
Trivial facts are often the best hints to what is going on.
J.M. ROBERTS
What I’ve come to realize I that I don’t like action for action’s sake. Mindless explosions, s...
J.M. RICHARDS
A girl would be lucky to have you, but not like this, Carmine. Not the way you treat people now. You...
J.M. DARHOWER
His head exploded. I’d never seen someone’s head explode. I never thought I would. Maybe in the ...
J.M. SULLIVAN
Stacey muttered, "But I hate this school, and this city, and the sooner I leave, the better. I want ...
J.M. REEP
To live will be an awfully big adventure.
J.M. BARRIE
Shoot the Wendybird!
J.M. BARRIE
Mrs. Darling loved to have everything just so, and Mr. Darling had a passion for being exactly like ...
J.M. BARRIE
Peter was not with them for the moment, and they felt rather lonely up there by themselves. He could...
J.M. BARRIE
Feeling that Peter was on his way back, the Neverland had again woke into life. We ought to use the ...
J.M. BARRIE
Our heroine knew that the mother would always leave the window open for her children to fly back by;...
J.M. BARRIE
Of all the delectable islands the Neverland is the snuggest and most compact, not large and sprawly,...
J.M. BARRIE
I am the best there ever was!
J.M. BARRIE
He was a poet; and they are never exactly grown-up.
J.M. BARRIE
One could mention many lovable traits in Smee. For instance, after killing, it was his spectacles he...
J.M. BARRIE
Wendy, Wendy, when you are sleeping in your silly bed you might be flying about with me saying funny...
J.M. BARRIE
But where do you live mostly now?"
With the lost boys."
Who are they?"
They are the c...
J.M. BARRIE
Tink was not all bad: or, rather, she was all bad just now, but, on the other hand, sometimes she wa...
J.M. BARRIE
Why can't you fly now, mother?"
"Because I am grown up, dearest. When people grow up they forge...
J.M. BARRIE
She asked where he lived.

Second to the right,' said Peter, 'and then straight on till m...
J.M. BARRIE
Build a house?" exclaimed John.

"For the Wendy," said Curly.

"For Wendy?" John...
J.M. BARRIE
Two is the beginning of the end.
J.M. BARRIE
Forever is a very long time Peter
J.M. BARRIE
After you have been unfair to him he will love you again, but he will never afterwards be quite the ...
J.M. BARRIE
Wendy," Peter Pan continued in a voice that no woman has ever yet been able to resist, "Wendy, one g...
J.M. BARRIE
When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all...
J.M. BARRIE
It was not really Saturday night, at least it may have been, for they had long lost count of the day...
J.M. BARRIE
Stars are beautiful, but they may not take an active part in anything, they must just look on for ev...
J.M. BARRIE
Can anything harm us, mother, after the night-lights are lit?"
Nothing, precious," she said; "t...
J.M. BARRIE
I taught you to fight and to fly. What more could there be?
J.M. BARRIE
If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.
J.M. BARRIE
Stars are beautiful, but they may not take part in anything, they must just look on forever.
J.M. BARRIE
Do you believe in fairies?...If you believe, clap your hands!
J.M. BARRIE
Stars are beautiful, but they must not take an active part in anything, they must just look on forev...
J.M. BARRIE
I stretched out my arms and laid my palms on the earth, and, yes, the rocking persisted, the rocking...
J.M. COETZEE
Leah looked at her parents, lost in their own fantasies, and decided that the three of them were a p...
J.M. REEP
We walked to dinner, ate together, and talked nearly the whole time. I was amazed that I had as much...
J.M. RICHARDS
Sir, you are both ungallant and deficient!
How am I deficient?
You're just a boy.
J.M. BARRIE
I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.
J.M. BARRIE
David tells me that fairies never say 'We feel happy': what they say is, 'We feel dancey'.
J.M. BARRIE
I don’t know if you have ever seem a map of a person’s mind. Doctors sometimes draw maps of othe...
J.M. BARRIE
Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherw...
J.M. COETZEE
If you have it [love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't ma...
J.M. BARRIE
Yes, you see, there’s no such thing as coincidence. There are no accidents in life. Everything tha...
J.M. DARHOWER
Peter,' she asked, trying to speak firmly, 'what are your exact feelings for me?'
Those of a de...
J.M. BARRIE
(I)f we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retri...
J.M. COETZEE
All children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow up, and the way Wendy knew was...
J.M. BARRIE
His own opinion, which he does not air, is that the origin of speech lie in song, and the origins of...
J.M. COETZEE
Go for it, while you can. I know you have it in you. And I can't promise you'll get everything you w...
J.M. DARHOWER
I'm not young enough to know everything.
J.M. BARRIE
You can play it safe, and I wouldn't blame you for it. You can continue as you've been doing, and yo...
J.M. DARHOWER
I did it again. Lying guilty in a hotel room for a woman I will fail for.
J.M. AUGUST