Pray at all times…
There is no one who cannot pray – and pray at all times and in all places; by night or day, when hard at work or resting; in the country, at home, or when travelling.
–Saint John Vianney (1786-1859)
Love and desire God…
We don’t love our parents because they belong to us; we love them because we belong to them. It is thus that we love and desire God: not that He may become our good, but because He is our good; not that He may become ours but because we are His. It is not as though He exists for us: we exist for Him.
–Saint Francis de Sales (1567-1622)
You can pray…
You can pray by putting yourself quite simply in touch with God. When one finds nothing more to say to Him but just knows He is there – that in itself is the best of prayers.
–Saint John Vianney (1786-1859)
Being alone with God…
There can be no substitute in the spiritual life for being alone with God. There must be that part of spirituality which is private and individual – secret between me and my God. It is that daily attempt to become increasingly aware of the presence and the action of God in our lives and to know the growing desire within us for some kind of closeness to him.
–Basil Hume (1923-1999)
Source of renewal…
The saints have always been the source and origin of renewal in the most difficult moments in the Church’s history.
–Saint John Paul (1920-2005)
Receive Christ through prayer…
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)
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