Prayer and action...can never be seen as contradictory or mutually exclusive. Prayer without action grows into powerless pietism, and action without ….

Yet the basic fact remains: every regulation represents a restriction of liberty, every regulation has a cost. That is why, like marriage (in the Pra….

perhaps there's no sharper spur to meditation than answered prayer..

I'll tell you what's more important than all the commentaries in your library: prayer..

Catholicism is the big house of Christianity. It's got many, many rooms in it. And I've always been attracted to the rooms which are to do with praye….

Prayer is the means by which men communicate with God. Revelation is the means by which God communicates with men..

The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them;….

Prayer is the instrument of miracles..

Our great need is not ardour to save man but courage to face God - courage to face God with our soul as it is, and with our Saviour as He is; to face….

The Living God alone can make us living men; the mighty God alone can make us mighty men; the loving God alone can make us consecrated men..

Do you wish to learn the secret of true Eucharistic prayer? Consider, then, all the mysteries in the light of the Blessed Sacrament. It is a divine p….

A man's state before God may always be measured by his prayers..

If you are sick, fast and pray; if the language is hard to learn, fast and pray; if the people will not hear you, fast and pray, if you have nothing ….

Prayer is not asking God to do something, it's asking God to help YOU do something.

Trusting in Him, who can go with me, and remain with you and be every where for good, let us confidently hope that all will yet be well. To His care ….

More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of..

The first rule for prayer, the most important first step, is not about how to do it, but to just do it; not to perfect and complete it but to begin i….

If within us we find nothing over us we succumb to what is around us..

IN THE BEGINNING I undertook my walking not only to contact people, I undertook it as a prayer discipline to keep me concentrated on my prayer for pe….

Prayer is the atmosphere of revelation, in the strict and central sense of that word. It is the climate in which God's manifestation bursts open into….

We shall come one day to a heaven where we shall gratefully know that God's great refusals were sometimes the true answers to our truest prayer..