<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459912" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Where prayer meets praise</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Where does prayer end, and praise begin? <br>Can there really be distinction? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">In prayer, we believe, we call upon the gods, <br>those forces greater than our smaller selves, <br>to give us what we feel we sadly lack; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">In praise, we ask them nothing; simply dedicate <br>our inner selves to honour all we feel of worth; <br>honour, laud and magnify those highest qualities <br>that mortal minds conceive as boundless life.. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Within us, then, some prior knowledge grown <br>of what we feel should govern our full life! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And now the blissful sages speak to us <br>and tell us that the heavens which we seek <br>are equally inside our very selves, <br>awaiting recognition and acknowledgement; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">so what does that imply? That what we call upon <br>with prayer, must be answered; for it’s there <br>within already – courage, strength or love; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">and what we praise, is, too, all there within: <br>we praise ourselves, while thinking of ourselves <br>as other than ourself.. now, is this strange? or beautiful - <br>beyond all beauty: good beyond all good? <br>and true, for all hearts know the truth of truth?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459912" data-title="Where prayer meets praise de Michael Shepherd" data-description="Where does prayer end, and praise begin? Can there really be distinction? In prayer, we believe, we call upon the gods, those forces greater than our smaller selves, to give us what we feel we sadly lack; In praise, we ask them nothing; sim..."></div> </div> </div>

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