We try too much and trust too little. Count the times God's Book tells us to try. Now count the times it tells us to trust.
Trusting God's grace means trusting God's love for us rather than our love for God. […] Therefore our prayers should consist mainly of rousing our awareness of God's love for us rather than trying to...
But if he had come down from the Cross, he would have made it for them to believe in him, for he would have substituted sight for faith. That is why he does not take us down from our crosses: so that...
In reality, the damned are in the same place as the saved—in reality! But they hate it; it is their Hell. The saved love it, and it is their Heaven. It is like two people sitting side by side at an op...
When we pray, instead of trying to produce love in our souls toward God, we should be basking in God's love for us. How foolish to stay indoors in the cold, dark little room off the self, trying to tu...
Don't be more serious than God. God invented dog farts. God designed your body's plumbing system. God designed an ostrich. If He didn't do it, He permitted a drunken angel to do it. Empirical facts ca...
Nothing but prayer can make saints because nothing but God can make saints, and we meet God in prayer. Prayer is the hospital for souls where we meet Doctor God.
But that is all prayer requires: faith, hope, and love. Great holiness, or piety, or sanctity are not required. Prayer is a road holiness.
Léon Bloy wrote: 'Life holds only one tragedy: not to have been a saint
If we rely on anything else besides faith to maintain the practice of the presence of God, we will certainly fail, whether this is our feelings, or experiences, or sincerity, or good intentions, or re...
It is true, as John Bunyan said, that God infinitely prefers a heart without words to words without a heart when we pray.
To invoke Jesus' name is to place yourself in his presence, to open yourself to his power, his energy. The prayer of Jesus' name actually brings God closer, making him more present. He is always prese...
God wants us to worry about our sins we sin; the devil wants us to worry we sin. God wants us to feel free after we repent (for we really are free then); the devil is a deceiver). The devil tempts u...
The single most important piece of advice about prayer is one word: Begin!
Stand in the divine rain, and seeds of wisdom will grow in your soul.
When I say The good man gave his good dog a good meal, I use good analogically, for there is at the same time a similarity and a difference between a good man, a good dog, and a good meal. All three a...
You do not have to wait until you become a saint. [Prayer] is the way to become a saint.
Our conversation with God should be utterly free and familiar, because God is the only person who will never, ever misunderstand us and never, ever reject us (hate us, ignore us, or be indifferent to...
The practice of the presence of God, though we begin it at special times of prayer, is designed to spill out and over and into all times.
I guarantee you that after you die you will not say 'I spent too much time praying; I wish I had watched more TV instead.
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