You write, “To pray is to talk with God. But about what?” About what? About Him, about yourself—joys, sorrows, successes and failures, noble ambitions, daily worries, weaknesses! And acts of thanksgiving and petitions—and Love and reparation. In a word, to get to know him and to get to know yourself—”to get acquainted!”
— Saint Josemaría Escrivá (1902-1975)
You don’t know how to pray? Put yourself in the presence of God, and as soon as you have said, ‘Lord, I don’t know how to pray!” you can be sure you have already begun.
— Saint Josemaria Escriva (1902-1975)
Prayer is the best weapon we have; it is the key to God’s heart. You must speak to Jesus not only with your lips, but with your heart. In fact on certain occasions you should only speak to Him with your heart.
— Saint Pio (1887-1968)
The only way to pray is to pray; and the way to pray well is to pray much. If one has no time for this, then one must at least pray
regularly. But the less one prays, the worse it goes.
–John Chapman (1865-1933)
Pray as you can, not at you can’t.
–John Chapman (1865-1933)
Give thanks to Jesus Christ as soon as you get up in the morning for the blessings and graces he gives us continually, having created you to his own image and likeness, and having given us the grace of being Christian.
— Saint John of God (1495-1550)
