Page: Quotes, Prayer (how), Prayer (why), Sainthood
You say you see no reason why we should pray to the Saints since God can hear us and help us just as well, and will do so gladly, as any Saint in Heaven. Well, then, what need, I ask, do you have to ask any physician to help your fever, or to ask and pay any surgeon to heal your sore leg? For God can both hear you and help you as well as the best of doctors. He loves you more than they do, and He can help you sooner. Besides—–His poultices are cheaper and He will give you more for your words alone than they will for your money!
–Saint Thomas More (1478-1535)
Love, Page: Quotes, Prayer (why), Quote Author, Quote Topic, Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997)
Where does this love begin? In our own home. How does it begin? By loving one another. But we cannot love one another unless we pray for prayer gives a clean heart. Prayer – family that prays together, stays together and if you stay together, you will love one another as God loves you. And the fruit of that prayer is love, joy, peace. The fruit of prayer is deepening of faith and the fruit of faith is love and the fruit of love is service and the fruit of service is peace.
–Saint Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997)
Page: Quotes, Prayer (why), Quote Topic
If He who is without sin prayed, how much more ought sinners to pray?
–Saint Cyprian of Carthage (c. 200-258)
John Chrysostom (347-407), Page: Quotes, Prayer (what), Prayer (when), Prayer (why), Quote Author, Quote Topic
Prayer should be the means by which I, at all times, receive all that I need, and, for this reason, be my daily refuge, my daily consolation, my daily joy, my source of rich and inexhaustible joy in life.
–Saint John Chrysostom (347-407)
John Chrysostom (347-407), Page: Quotes, Prayer (what), Prayer (why), Quote Author
It is simply impossible to lead, without the aid of prayer, a virtuous life. What prayer could be more true before God the Father than that which the Son, who is Truth, uttered with His own lips? Prayer is the place of refuge for every worry, a foundation for cheerfulness, a source of constant happiness, a protection against sadness.
–Saint John Chrysostom (347-407)
Fulton Sheen (1895-1979), Page: Quotes, Prayer (what), Prayer (why), Quote Author, Struggle (with Sin)
No soul ever fell away from God without giving up prayer. Prayer is that which establishes contact with Divine Power and opens the invisible resources of heaven. However dark the way, when we pray, temptation can never master us. The first step downward in the average soul is the giving up of the practice of prayer, the breaking of the circuit with divinity, and the proclamation of one’s owns self sufficiency.
–Blessed Fulton Sheen (1895-1979)
