Bernhard Langer Quotes

In my midteens I went through a brief stage of religious fanaticism, but it was very much about just saying prayers and stuff like that, reciting rosaries and spending a lot of time on that kind of Catholic ritual.

Every Wednesday, my husband and I have a study group with our friends. I attend church. We try to devote time in the morning, say a prayer.

I am not a theologian or a historian, and I feel no call to become a defender of the faith, so in my case, the search for what remains valuable focuses on language itself: Catholic prayer, ritual, the naming of things.

It is so important to balance orthodoxy with orthopraxy.

We say the name of God, but that is only habit.

I'm saying my rosary every day.

People aren't religious because it's easy not to be. Like anything, it's habitual, and once it's a habit it's no longer hard.

We took our Catholicism very seriously. We never missed Mass; our father was a lector, and both our parents taught catechism. At 3 in the afternoon on Good Friday, we gathered in the living room for 10 minutes of silence in front of a painting of the Crucifixion.

I pray almost every day, and you can see that I pray on the pitch. I pray in the dressing room. That is just part of my life.

When you think about the Catholic Church, it is a bit flamboyant, in't it?

The path I follow is still an Orthodox path. You have to follow a path; otherwise, it becomes a little bit new-age, a bit of this, a bit of that.

I pray every morning and night before bed.

I was raised Catholic and I have a lot of respect for the good in the Catholic Church. But I don't go to church.

Went to church and fasted all day.

Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.

... it was religion that saved me. Our ugly church and parochial school provided me with my only aesthetic outlet, in the words ofthe Mass and the litanies and the old Latin hymns, in the Easter lilies around the altar, rosaries, ornamented prayer books, votive lamps, holy cards stamped in gold and decorated with flower wreaths and a saint's picture.

Prayer is a ritual! But at the root of prayer is the idea of complete bowing down in submission to the Will of God.

Rediscover the Rosary in the light of scripture, in harmony with the Liturgy, and in the context of your daily lives.

Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.

I'm a lapsed Quaker. I don't go to meetings any more. But I'm very drawn to Catholicism - all that glitter. I'd love to be a Catholic. I think it would be fantastic - faith, forgiveness, absolution, extreme unction - all these wonderful words. I don't think anyone who was ever born a Catholic hasn't died a Catholic, no matter how lapsed they are.

Who goes to bed, and doth not pray, Maketh two nights to every day!

Prayer time must be kept up as duly as meal-time.

Be constantly committed to prayer or to reading [Scripture]; by praying, you speak to God, in reading, God speaks to you.

The Rosary is a powerful weapon to put the demons to flight and to keep oneself from sin…If you desire peace in your hearts, in your homes, and in your country, assemble each evening to recite the Rosary. Let not even one day pass without saying it, no matter how burdened you may be with many cares and labors.

To pray well is the better half of study.