Page: Quotes, Prayer (problems), Quote Author, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life), Therese of Lisieux (1873-1897)
I was far from getting any consolation. Instead, I suffered complete spiritual dryness, almost as if I were quite forsaken… But that doesn’t upset me. It fills me with great joy. It’s true that I am a long way from being a saint, and this attitude of mine proves it. Instead of the lighting in my spiritual aridity, I have to blame my lack of faith and fervor for it. I should be distressed that I drop off the sleep during my prayers and during my thanksgiving after Communion. But I don’t feel at all distressed. I know that children are just as dear to their parents whether they are asleep or awake and I know that doctors put their patients to sleep before they operate. So I just think that God “knows our frame; remembers that we are dust.”
–Saint Therese of Lisieux (1873-1897)
Contemplation, Page: Quotes, Prayer (problems), Prayer (what), Quote Topic
Dryness leads us gently from vocal prayer, where we learn to speak to God; to Meditation, where we think of God; to Contemplation, where our heart merely gazes upon Him with a love too deep for words.
–Mother Angelica (1923-2016)
Fulton Sheen (1895-1979), Page: Quotes, Prayer (problems), Quote Author, Quote Topic
Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.
–Blessed Fulton Sheen (1895-1979)
Page: Quotes, Prayer (problems), Quote Topic
It is a great thing to pray without distraction but yet greater to sing without distraction.
–Evagrius Ponticus (345-399)
Page: Quotes, Prayer (how), Prayer (problems), Quote Author, Quote Topic, Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)
Gently recall your mind when it wanders . . . unceasingly gather up again your scattered spirit. Turn your inward eye once more towards Him . . . persevere with an unconquered heart.
–Saint Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)
Adversity, Francis de Sales (1567-1622), Page: Quotes, Prayer (problems), Quote Author, Quote Topic
Certainly the greatest defect we have in our prayers – and in all that happens to us, particularly in that which concerns tribulations – is our lack of confidence.
–Saint Francis de Sales (1567-1622)
