I vehemently disagree. Prayer and action are not mutually exclusive. Nor is the prayer of a righteous person ineffective. Only if you do not believe the Universe wishes us to love does this make any sense at all.
We may say prayers when we are trying to solve the problems we face, but it is up to us to put an end to violence and bring about peace. Creating peace is our responsibility. To pray for peace while still engaging in the causes that give rise to violence is contradictory.
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Prayer without action is powerless. For people to just say they’re praying without actually making any effort for change is literally meaningless. A “righteous person” is known by their actions. Not for their prayers.
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And if you're Christian (I'm Agnostic); God gave people free will. You can pray all you want but God can't stop the actions of others. Defeats the whole point.
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Precisely. It’s like telling someone you love them, and then proceed to express zero loving action. Eventually, your words will be seen as nothing, because your actions clearly don’t communicate what your saying. Same goes with prayer.
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Thoughts and Prayers
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Yup. Don’t get me wrong, though, I’m not anti-prayer by any means. Prayer is a wonderful tool when necessary, but again, without action is meaningless. We need to turn “thoughts and prayers” into “pray and do something!” ASAP.
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Prayer without action is actually meaningless. It's one thing to pray for strength, or courage, or inner peace and what not. But if you're praying for external things, you need to give God a reason to bless it. Which means, you need to pray, and then act on that prayer.
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The Word says, in James 2:17, "faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead." I was taught long ago, God won't do what man can do, and man cannot do what God can do. We need to DO our part and trust God to take care of the rest. Action is required on our part
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Sounds like Islamists are the main target of this message
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The target is you, me, all of us who co habit the Earth...
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Well said@ludmilacarneiro
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Exactly! Beautifully stated!
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We can't achieve peace without our active efforts. The inner transformation will work. It will bring peace within ourselves & then the resolve spread in all directions. Anger, hatred, voilence residing in our inner soul should be replaced with love, compassion & Altruism
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Our biggest enemy is not the other person. It is the violence, ignorance & injustice sitting in our own soul. When we are graced with beautiful values like compassion, we shouldn't fight against other people, but against the our own tendency to invade, to dominate & to exploit
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The spark, the rebellion of change which we are wishing in external world should arise first in our heart then spread from here, otherwise there will be a birth of a duality & ambivalence, which at times will question ur own existence "who u are & why u deserve this from others"
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Duality is biggest cause of misery and pain. People go on changing their colour like chameleon & in end they themselves find difficulty who they are.
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Reminds me of something Mother Teresa said: “I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us and we change things.”
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