More by listening…
In prayer, more is accomplished by listening than by talking.
–Saint Jane Frances de Chantal (1572-1641)
A good prayer…
A good and perfect prayer requires that we forget self, that we be ready to sacrifice all that we are for God.
–Saint Jane Frances de Chantal (1572-1641)
For prayer, we need only…
For prayer, we need only to keep ourselves simply and calmly attentive to God by breathing aspirations of love without voluntary distractions. The whole time we are thus present before Him will be taken for a prayer in God’s sight.
–Saint Jane Frances de Chantal (1572-1641)
Remain still…
We should go to prayer with deep humility and an awareness of our nothingness. We must invoke the help of the Holy Spirit and that of our good angel, and then remain still in God’s presence, full of faith that He is more in us than we are in ourselves.
–Saint Jane Frances de Chantal (1572-1641)
Raising our minds to God…
There is no danger if our prayer is without words or reflection because the good success of prayer depends neither on words nor on study. It depends upon the simple raising of our minds to God, and the more simple and stripped of feeling it is, the surer it is.
–Saint Jane Frances de Chantal (1572-1641)
Beginning each day…
Never forget that it is at the beginning of each day that God has the necessary grace for the day ready for us. He knows exactly what opportunities we shall have to sin, and will give us everything we need if we ask him then. That is why the devil does all he can to prevent us from saying our morning prayers or to make us say them badly.
–Saint John Vianney (1786-1859)
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