Pray with…
Pray with perseverance, with faith, with calmness and serenity.
–Saint Pio (1887-1968)
Pray in secret…
In order to find Him you should forget all your possessions and all creatures and hide in the interior, secret chamber of your spirit. And there, closing the door behind you, you should pray to your Father in secret. Remaining hidden with Him, you will experience Him in hiding, and love and enjoy Him in hiding.
— Saint John of the Cross (1542-1591)
Your thoughts shout…
For God does not hear us as humans hear. Unless you shout with your lungs and chest and lips, a mere man does not hear; whereas to God your very thoughts shout.
–Saint Augustine (354-430)
Abandon yourself with God….
Abandon yourself for a little to God and rest for a little while in him. Enter into the inner chamber of your soul, shut out everything save God and what can be of help in your quest for him and having locked the door seek him out.
–Saint Anselm (1033-1109)
The name of Jesus…
Are you troubled? Think but of Jesus, speak but the name of Jesus, the clouds disperse, and peace descends anew from heaven. Have you fallen into sin? So that you fear death? invoke the name of Jesus, and you will soon feel life returning. No obduracy of the soul, no weakness, no coldness of heart can resist this holy name; there is no heart which will not soften and open in tears at this holy name.
–Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153)
The quieter the mind…
The quieter the mind, the more powerful, the worthier, the deeper, the more telling and more perfect the prayer is.
–Meister Eckhart (1260-1328)
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