Let prayer pray…
The best way to pray is: stop. Let prayer pray within you, whether you know it or not.
–Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
To enter into contemplation…
To enter into the realm of contemplation, one must in a certain sense die: but this death is in fact the entrance into a higher life. It is a death for the sake of life, which leaves behind all that we can know or treasure as life, as thought, as experience as joy, as being. [Every form of intuition and experience] die to be born again on a higher level of life.
–Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
Confidence works miracles…
When we do not give up praying, confidence works miracles.
–Saint Thérèse of Lisieux (1873-1897)
Confidence is the soul…
Confidence is the very soul of prayer.
–Blessed Solanus Casey (1870-1957)
Speak not much in prayer…
Our Lord bade us not to speak much in our prayer, for he knows what we need before we ask for it, since he is the God of all knowledge.
–Francisco de Osuna (1497-1541)
If your thoughts wander…
If through old-established, evil custom, your thoughts wander so that you cannot direct them, turn to God, tell him your weakness, and ask his help with faith.
–Francisco de Osuna (1497-1541)
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