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Prayers, too, after reading, find the soul fresher, and more vigorously stirred by love towards God. And that prayer is good which imprints a clear idea of God in the soul; and the having God established in self by means of memory is God’s indwelling. Thus we become God’s temple, when the continuity of our recollection is not severed by earthly cares; when the mind is harassed by no sudden sensations; when the worshipper flees from all things and retreats to God, drawing away all the feelings that invite him to self-indulgence, and passes his time in the pursuits that lead to virtue.
–Saint Basil the Great (330-379)
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You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.
–GK Chesterton (1874-1936)
Page: Quotes, Prayer (what), Prayer (why), Quote Author, Quote Topic, Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
In prayer we discover what we already have. You start from where you are and you deepen what you already have, and you realize you are already there. We have everything but we don’t know it and don’t experience it. Everything has been given us in Christ. All we need is to experience what we already possess.
–Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
Jerome (c. 340-420), Page: Quotes, Prayer (what), Quote Author, Quote Topic
Prayer is a groan.
–Saint Jerome (c. 340-420)
Catherine of Siena (1347-1380), Page: Quotes, Prayer (what), Quote Author, Quote Topic
Prayer is a pasturage, a field, wherein all the virtues find their nourishment, growth, and strength.
–Saint Catherine of Siena (1347-1380)
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Prayer must lead us beyond mind, words, and ideas to a more spacious place where God has a chance to get in.
–Richard Rohr (1943-
