The great method of prayer is to have none. If in going to prayer one can form in oneself a pure capacity for receiving the spirit of God, that will suffice for all method.
St. Jane Frances de Chantal
Now We Know Why He Is Pope
"Said to be in the habit of waking before 5am, Papa Bergoglio starts his day with some two hours of quiet reflection before Mass."
Source: whispersintheloggia.blogspot.com
He who avoids prayer is avoiding everything that is good.
Saint John of the Cross
There is no other remedy for this evil of giving up prayer than to begin again.
Saint Teresa of Avila
Why sometimes it's hard to pray the Rosary...
Have no anxiety at all, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, make your requests known to God. Then the peace of God that surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 4:6-7
"Is God talking to me in prayer, or am I talking to myself?"
(excellent video!)
Don't worry about how to speak about the Lord. When you allow him to enter into your heart, he will give you words.
Brother Elias (a Trappist quoted in Henri Nouwen's "The Genesee Diary")
"I struggle with distractions when I pray..."
"How can I improve my prayer life?"
If people live in harmony with God and do his will, he will give them whatever they want, but if they seek their own interests it will be useless for them to speak to God.
Saint John of the Cross
Dude. Is. Real.
Justin Fatica is at OLQM in Manhattan tonight, and I'll be there with our youth group. Have a blessed weekend...
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You don’t know how to pray? Put yourself in the presence of God, and as soon as you have said, ‘Lord, I don’t even know how to pray!’ you can be sure you have already begun.
St Josemaria Escriva (via thefullnessofthefaith)
If you think prayer is for feeling better about yourself... you're doing it wrong.
The whole world is asleep, and God, so full of goodness, so great, so worthy of all praise, no one is thinking of him! See, nature praises him, and man... who ought to praise him, sleeps! Let us go and wake up the universe... and sing his praises.
Blessed Mariam Baouardy (1846-1878)
Day and night I am pursued by the same thought: one does not pray enough for the dead. Eighty thousand people in this nation die every day.
Blessed Eugénie Smet (1825-1871)
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