Pastoral Resources

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.

I'll do a little prayer here and there if I feel the need to.

God hears a mother's prayer.

The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'

Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.

The most eloquent prayer is the prayer through hands that heal and bless.

It is the prayer of my innermost being to realize my supreme identity in the liberated play of consciousness, the Vast Expanse. Now is the moment, Here is the place of Liberation.

Never was a faithful prayer lost. Some prayers have a longer voyage than others, but then they return with their richer lading at last, so that the praying soul is a gainer by waiting for an answer.

Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.

Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.

We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation.

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

Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.