The sovereign cure for worry is prayer. Read Summary
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it. Read Summary
To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do. Read Summary
It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills. Read Summary
You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment. In that insight of inter-being, it is possible to have real communication with the Earth, which is the highest form of prayer. Read Summary
Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon. Read Summary
My mother was a Sunday school teacher. So I am a byproduct of prayer. My mom just kept on praying for her son. Read Summary
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays. Read Summary
Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God. Read Summary
Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays. Read Summary
Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us. Read Summary
I talk to Allah, I pray to him. Read Summary
For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God. Read Summary
A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil which abounds in weeds. His Majesty roots up the weeds and will put in good plants instead. Let us reckon that this is already done when the soul decides to practice prayer and has begun to do so. Read Summary
Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone with Him who we know loves us. The important thing is not to think much but to love much and so do that which best stirs you to love. Love is not great delight but desire to please God in everything. Read Summary
Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love. Read Summary
Those who give themselves to prayer should in a special manner have always a devotion to St. Joseph; for I know not how any man can think of the Queen of the angels, during the time that she suffered so much with the Infant Jesus, without giving thanks to St. Joseph for the services he rendered them then. Read Summary
Whoever has not begun the practice of prayer, I beg for the love of the Lord not to go without so great a good. There is nothing here to fear but only something to desire. Read Summary
The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave - caring nothing whether the words are suitable or not, but simply saying the first thing that comes to mind from being learnt by rote by frequent repetition - cannot be called prayer: God grant that no Christian may address Him in this manner. Read Summary
A soul which gives itself to prayer, either much or little, should on no account be kept within narrow bounds. Read Summary