He who has heard the Word of God can bear his silences.
I have morning prayers and a nighttime reflection. I also read the Bible daily.
To be a religions man and to pray are really one and the same thing. To join in the thought of God with every thought of any importance that occurs to us ; in all our admiration of external nature, to regard it as the work of His wisdom ; to take counsel with God about all our plans, that we may be able to carry them out in His name ; and even in our most mirthful hours to remember His all-seeing eye ; this is the prayer without ceasing to which we are called, and which is really the essence of true religion.
For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor in lying prostratebefore the temples of the gods, nor in sprinkling altars with the blood of beastsbut rather in being able to look upon all things with a mind at peace.
Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.
Faith is the gaze of a soul upon a saving God.
Prayer for me is an updward leap of the heart
Worship is not simply a feeling that is experienced; it must also involve understanding and the mind.
We ought to muse upon the things of God, because we thus get the real nutriment out of them.
All intelligent faith in God has behind it a background of humble agnosticism.
Surely if there be any habit which your own hand and eye should help in forming, it is the habit of prayer.
Prayer is the highest intelligence, the profoundest wisdom, the most vital, the most joyous, the most efficacious, the most powerful of all vocations.
In prayer the soul comes nearest the experience of absolute love: in belief it ascends by means of symbols towards absolute truth.
The Church and the world have a great need of eucharistic worship. Jesus waits for us in this sacrament of love. Let us be generous with our time in going to meet Him in adoration and in contemplation that is full of faith and ready to make reparation for the great faults and crimes of the world. May our adoration never cease
