Page: Quotes, Prayer (why), Quote Topic
However hard we may try to know Christ without prayer, we would only know him as a Savior of people, a Redeemer of others, a Sanctifier of saints, a Justifier of sinners. We would remain deprived of all these gifts and graces. We will not receive them unless we first receive Christ through prayer within our lives. We should first make him at rest in our hearts so he may live in us. He should share everything with us and manage all our affairs.
–Matthew the Poor aka Matta El-Meskeen (1919-2006)
Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997)
It is not necessary to always be meditating, not to consciously experience the sensation that we are talking to God, no matter how nice this would be. What matters is being with Him, living with Him, in His will. To love with a pure heart, to love everybody, especially to love the poor, is a twenty four hour prayer.
–Blessed Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997)
Page: Quotes, Prayer (how), Prayer (why), Quote Author, Quote Topic, Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997)
Everything starts with prayer. Love to pray – feel the need to pray often during the day and take the trouble to pray. If you want to pray better, you must pray more. The more you pray, the easier it becomes. Perfect prayer does not consist of many words but in the fervor of the desire which raises the heart to Jesus.
–Blessed Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997)
Page: Quotes, Prayer (what), Quote Author, Quote Topic, Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997)
Real prayer is union with God, a union as vital as that of the vine to the branch.
–Blessed Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997)
Page: Quotes, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life)
It is a great art to succeed in having your soul sanctified. A person can become a saint anywhere. He can become a saint in Omonia Square [a notorious section of Athens], if he wants. At your work, whatever it may be, you can become a saint through meekness, patience, and love. Make a new start every day, with new resolution, with enthusiasm and love, prayer and silence — not with anxiety so that you get a pain in the chest.
–Saint Porphyrios (1906-1991)
Page: Quotes, Quote Topic, Sainthood
Union with God, then, is the spiritual height God calls everyone to achieve – any one, not only religious but any one, who chooses, who wills to seek this pearl of great price, who specializes in the traffic of eternal good, who says ‘yes’ constantly to God … The imitation of Christ in the lives of saints is always possible and compatible with every state of life. The saints did but one thing – the will of God. But they did it with all their might. We have only to do the same thing; and according to the degree of intensity with which we labor shall our sanctification progress.
–Blessed Miriam Teresa (1901-1927)
