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Are you making no progress in prayer? Then you need only offer God the prayers which the Savior has poured out for us in the sacrament of the altar. Offer God his fervent love in reparation for your sluggishness. In the course of every activity pray as follows: “My God, I do this or I endure that in the heart of your Son and according to his holy counsels. I offer it to you in reparation for anything blameworthy or imperfect in my actions.” Continue to do this in every circumstance of life.
–Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque (1647- 1690)
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It should be clear by now that the main battle in mental prayer is perseverance. God will give us the grace to persevere if we ask him for it trustingly and are firmly resolved to do whatever is up to us.
–Jacques Philippe (1947-
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If the life of prayer is not a technique to be mastered but a grace to be received, a gift from God, then talk about prayer should not focus on describing methods or giving instructions, but on explaining the necessary conditions for receiving the gift.
–Jacques Philippe (1947-
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If you seek after prayer with concentration, then you will surely find prayer. Nothing is more essential to prayer than concentration. Do all that you can to acquire it.
–Evagrius Ponticus (345-399)
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Pray with fear and trembling, and with a watchful and vigilant mind, that your prayer might be acceptable to the Lord;
–Saint Theodorus the Ascetic (Seventh Century)
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In times of difficulty or sadness, in times of suffering, if you frequently call to mind that God is in you to give you his love, you will not be alone, you will find the Guest within you, and he will answer you.
–Charles Journet (1891–1975)
