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“Prayer is not so much a way to find God as a way of resting in him...who loves us, who is near to us.”

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Thomas Merton (January 31, 1915 - December 10, 1968) was an American writer, poet, social critic, and mystic. His works covered a wide range of topics including philosophy, religion, and social justice, and were highly appreciated by readers. more

“Before all things, the Teacher of Peace and the Master of Unity would not have prayer made singly and individually, as for one who prays only for himself. For we do not say, "My Father, who art in heaven"... Our prayer is public and common; and when we pray, we pray not for one, but for the whole people, because we the whole people are one.”

People Art Made Whole Father Heaven Prayer Common Teacher Masters Praying All Things Unity Our Prayers

Author:Cyprian

“The prayer of listening makes things simple but it also makes us vulnerable, and that is frightening. Listening makes us open to Christ, the Word of God, spoken in all things: in the material world, the Scriptures, the Church, and sacraments and, sometimes most threateningly, in our fellow human beings. To listen at prayer is to take the chance of hearing the voice of Christ in the poor, the weak, those whom we love and those whom we do not love.”

“We are always in the presence of God, yet it seems to me that those who pray are in His presence in a very different sense.”

Different Seems Prayer Praying Presence Of God

Book:The Life of St. Teresa of Avila

Source: The Life of St. Teresa of Avila

“When prayer is a struggle, do not worry about the prayers that you cannot pray. You yourself are a prayer to God at that moment. All that is within you cries out to Him, and He hears all the pleas that your suffering soul and body are making to Him with groanings which cannot be uttered.”

Soul Moments Body Suffering Prayer Worry Struggle Cry Praying That Moment Within You Groaning Soul And Body

Book:Prayer

Source: Prayer

“Why pray if we cannot change God? ...is that why we pray? To change omniscient Love? Isn't it rather to learn what it is and to fulfill it? Not to change it by our acts, but to change our acts by it.”

Ifs Prayer Love Is Praying Omniscient Change God

Author:Peter Kreeft

“We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.”

Inspirational Gains Temptation Tempted Resisting Resisting Temptation

Book:Essays and Lectures

Source: Essays and Lectures

“You're here, on your knees, praying as the seconds on your Mickey Mouse clock tick by, but in God's time, you're working with Him at the moment of creation, when there is no time.”

Moments Prayer Creation Praying Clock Knees Seconds Mice Tick Mickey

Book:Prove It! Prayer

Source: Prove It! Prayer

“Christ was crucified because he would have nothing to do with the crowd (even though he addressed himself to all). He did not want to form a party, an interest group, a mass movement, but wanted to be what he was, the truth, which is related to the single individual. Therefore everyone who will genuinely serve the truth is by that very fact a martyr. To win a crowd is no art; for that only untruth is needed, nonsense, and a little knowledge of human passions. But no witness to the truth dares to get involved with the crowd.”

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