Babbling, reciting prayers…
Never believe that true prayer consists in mere babbling, reciting so many psalms and vigils, saying your beads while you allow your thoughts to roam.
–Johannes Tauler (c. 1300-1361)
Accept all as from God…
Be silent, endure, and accept all as from God, that you may learn to know yourself thereby.
–Johannes Tauler (1300–1361)
Reading spiritual books…
There is nothing more to the purpose for exciting a spirit of prayer, than the reading of spiritual books.
–Saint Philip Neri (1515-1595)
Never point out another’s defects…
If we wish to keep peace with our neighbors, we should never remind any one of his natural defects.
–Saint Philip Neri (1515-1595)
As you know and will…
The most beautiful prayer we can make is to say to God, “As You know and will, O Lord, so do with me.”
–Saint Philip Neri (1515-1595)
Go on journeys…
For although God is right with us and in us and out of us and all through us, we have to go on journeys to find him.
–Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
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