Prayer is like…
Prayer is like a great love. When you start dating the silence can be awkward, but as you grow to know each other you can sit in silence for hours and just being with each other is a great comfort.
–Matthew Kelly (1973-
Hard to repent…
It is hard to repent, because we find it hard to trust God to be merciful; because we shield ourselves from recognizing our own sinfulness; and because the murky realm of our sins is something we don’t even understand very well.
–Frederica Mathewes-Green (1952-
Your prayer-room…
The apostle [Paul] teaches us to pray anywhere, while the Savior says Go into your room – but you must understand that this “room” is not the room with four walls that confines your body when you are in it, but the secret space within you in which your thoughts are enclosed and where your sensations arrive.That is your prayer-room, always with you wherever you are, always secret wherever you are, with your only witness being God.
–Saint Ambrose of Milan (339-397)
Pray urgently and often…
Jesus told us to pray urgently and often, so that our prayers should not belong and tedious but short, earnest and frequent. Long elaborate prayers overflow with pointless phrases, and long gaps between prayers even stretch out into complete neglect.
–Saint Ambrose of Milan (339-397)
Prayer is a groan…
Prayer is a groan.
–Saint Jerome (c. 340-420)
Prayer is sitting…
Prayer is sitting in the silence until it silences us, choosing gratitude until we are grateful, and praising God until we ourselves are an act of praise.
–Richard Rohr (1943-
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