Prayer helps me to analyze the problem I face and to understand myself. It opens up a very important healing process. In my prayers I ask myself three key questions: 1. Are the goals I am pursuing appropriate? 2. Am I doing the right thing, based on my personal moral code, and, 3. Have I done my best, based on the alternatives open to me?
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Prayer helps analyze problems and evaluate personal morality through three key questions about goals, actions, and effort.
- In plain terms
- Prayer helps reflect on whether goals are right, actions are moral, and effort was sufficient.
- What can you take from it?
- Self reflection through prayer guides moral decision making.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How do you evaluate your own moral choices?
- What questions guide your decisions?
Another view
Not everyone finds prayer useful for problem analysis.
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