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| Social Distortion – Ball and Chain Lyrics
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@[duhaast:46486] true I agree I made this same point at a youth group thing once. A prayer is meant to be a true talk with God from the heart an empty prayer is not a true prayer this is why Jesus condemn pointless repetition in the Bible not that all prayers that are repeated are bad but that you cannot just chant something and not mean it, it needs to have substance the words need to come from the heart. To say “Lord Jesus Christ Son of God have mercy on me a sinner” a hundred times without knowing what you are asking God to have mercy on you for is nothing compared to truly knowing what you are asking for mercy for and repenting. Not that the Jesus prayer, Hail Mary, Our Father, or any other well known prayer with “things” and “thous” is bad in fact all three of those listed are taken directly from scripture. Once when I was in Confession my Priest said to say for my Penance one Our Father, slowly and taking in all the words I am saying. The Our Father is a great prayer to say even to repeat or say in Latin if you know what you are saying. It’s a prayer praising God, asking to do His will, asking for forgiveness while simultaneously forgiving others, and finally asking Him to deliver us from evil like temptation. Words meant to be spoken from the heart not just spoken. It’s like the Sound of Silence lyric “people talking without speaking”. Anyways I agree with you but just had to defend prayers that had thine and thou in them. It’s sad that many people today don’t know how to truly pray even religious people who just repeat the prayers that had been taught to them without caring to know what they truly mean or praying from the heart. |
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