More
things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.
Tennyson
The power of prayer is really tremendous.
To be sure of an answer, there is no need to recite from
a book a formula
composed for the occasion. If there were, I should have to
be pitied.
For me, prayer is an upward leap of the heart, an untroubled
glance towards heaven, a cry of gratitude and love which
I utter from the depths of sorrow as well as from the heights
of joy.
St Thérèse of Lisieux – The
Story of a Soul The power of prayer doesn’t
depend on the virtue of the one who prays, but on the unchanging
love of the One
who hears.
The Word for Today
I find everything in prayer,
which is for me fragrance and food,
a home, a shield, a tonic.
I recall the seasons of my prayer:
the moments I cry out in despair,
the days of glad thanksgiving,
the times of stillness,
presence,
adoration.
And I recite a prayer or song or poem
that I have come to love,
that I wish to have beside me all through life
and shall want my lips to say when I am dying.
Anthony de Mello – Wellsprings
Prayer is openness to the love
of God. Prayer implies exposing oneself to radically new
thinking. Prayer is expressed more
in abiding dispositions than in ritual recitations or exercises.
Only if this is understood can we possibly and positively
live out the inspired directive that “we should pray
without ceasing”.
David Weakliam, O Carm
Prayer is the movement of the Holy Spirit in the human heart
through which God reaches out and embraces human beings.
It is a duet of love in which the action of the Spirit inspires
and sustains us in the darkness of faith.
The Glenstal Book of Prayer
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