Formerly, I had never heard anyone speak to me of a totally spontaneous intimacy in relations with God. However, at the bottom of my heart I thought that a soul can be intimate with God by using all ways to express its love for him; that it can converse with him by using no matter what sort of ordinary words, according to its needs and circumstances. Of course it is not a waste of time to recite prayers; however, it might be that it is not so profitable as a conversation of the soul conversing gently with God in terms which spring spontaneously from the heart.
–Francois-Xavier Nguyen Van Thuân (1928-2002)
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