Prayer is the raising of the mind to God. We must always remember this. The actual words matter less.
Interpretation
Prayer is about connecting with God rather than the specific words used.
This quote emphasizes that the essence of prayer lies in the intention and focus of one's mind towards God, rather than the specific language or formulas employed. It serves as a reminder that a genuine connection in prayer is more important than the exact phrasing of the prayers we recite.
In practice
In a sermon, to explain the importance of intention in prayer.
Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.
To keep me from sin and straying from Him, God has used devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. My life vows destined to be spent in the light irradiating from the tabernacle, and it is to the Heart of Jesus that I dare go for the solution of all my problems
Anybody can be Pope; the proof of this is that I have become one.
The Catholic Church has a dignity far surpassing that of every merely human society, for it was founded by Christ the Lord. It is altogether fitting, therefore, that the language it uses should be noble, majestic, and non-vernacular.
Prudent is he who can keep silent that part of truth which may be untimely, and by not speaking it, does not spoil the truth of what he said.
I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end.
To talk with God, no breath is lost. Talk on! To walk with God, no strength is lost. Walk on! To wait on God, no time is lost. Wait on!
A child of God should be a visible beatitude for joy and happiness, and a living doxology for gratitude and adoration.
Prayer is the supreme activity of all that is noblest in our personality, and the essential nature of prayer is faith.
To predispose our mind to welcome the Lord who, as we say in the Creed, one day will come to judge the living and the dead, we must learn to recognize him as present in the events of daily life. Therefore, Advent is, so to speak, an intense training that directs us decisively toward him who already came, who will come, and who comes continuously.
We pray not to inform God or instruct Him but to beseech Him closely, to be made intimate with Him, by continuance in supplication; to be humbled; to be reminded of our sins.
Real prayer is union with God, a union as vital as that of the vine to the branch.
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