#prayer

Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion. ↗

Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy. ↗

Every one should find some suitable time, day or night, to sink into his depths, each according to his own fashion. Not every one is able to engage in contemplative prayer. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

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If we really want to achieve true prayer, we must turn our backs upon everything temporal, everything external, everything that is not divine. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

#backs #divine #everything #external #must

Never believe that true prayer consists in mere babbling, reciting so many psalms and vigils, saying your beads while you allow your thoughts to roam. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

#babbling #beads #believe #consists #many

More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones. ↗

— Saint Teresa

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a spiritual life without prayer is like the gospel without Christ. ↗

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

#life

The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. ↗

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

#issue #prayer

Prayer is the soul's sincere desire. Your desire is your prayer. It comes out of your deepest needs and it reveals the things you want in life. ↗