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...
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...
The single most important piece of advice about prayer is one word: Begin!
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...
Stand in the divine rain, and seeds of wisdom will grow in your soul.
If Christianity is true, this changes EVERYTHING. Christ's very last words to us in scripture were: Behold, I make all things new. (Rev. 21:5) I hope you remember that most moving line in the most mov...
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.
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...
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...
We can't avoid reasoning; we can only avoid doing it well.
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...
One common cause of this mistake of preferring to imagine and admire a great ideal instead of beginning to do little deeds is our impatience with little baby steps, our lack of humility.
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...
But that is all prayer requires: faith, hope, and love. Great holiness, or piety, or sanctity are not required. Prayer is a road holiness.
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.
Zabuna o odnosu između poimanja osobe i čovjeka može uzrokovati golemu štetu. Američki Vrhovni sud dvaput je pokazao da mu je prijeko potrebna lekcija iz filozofije jer ne shvaća da ljudska bića spada...
You do not have to wait until you become a saint. [Prayer] is the way to become a saint.
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.