Great is the power of prayer – a queen, as one might say, having free access always to the King, and able to obtain whatever she asks. In order to be heard, it is not necessary to read from a book a beautiful form of prayer adapted to the circumstances; if it were so, how greatly to be pitied should I be!
–Saint Therese of Lisieux (1873-1897)
Each prayer is more beautiful than the others. I cannot recite them all and not knowing which to choose, I do like children who do not know how to read, I say very simply to God what I wish to say, without composing beautiful sentences, and he always understands me.
–Saint Therese of Lisieux (1873-1897)
When you have received Holy Communion, close your bodily eyes so that you may open the eyes of your soul.Then look upon Jesus in the center of your heart.
–Saint Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)
By humble and faithful prayer, the soul acquires, with time and perseverance, every virtue.
–Saint Catherine of Siena (1347-1380)
A person who prays carelessly, and still expects his prayers to be heard, is likened to a man who pours into the mill bad grain, and expects to receive good flour in return.
–Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153)
I understand that, each time we contemplate with desire and devotion the Host in which is hidden Christ’s Eucharistic Body, we increase our merits in heaven and secure special joys to be ours later in the beatific vision of God.
–Saint Gertrude (1256-1302)
