Favorite Quotations ~  Prayer, 4 Prayer: Finding the Heart's True Home

"When you pray, move your feet." ~ African Proverb

Mary, Blessed Mother

The whole thing boils down to giving ourselves in prayer a chance to realize that we have what we seek. We don’t have to rush after it. It is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us. ~ Thomas Merton

As my prayer became more attentive and inward, I had less and less to say. I finally became completely silent… This is how it is. To pray does not mean to listen to oneself speaking. Prayer involves becoming silent, and being silent, and waiting until God is heard. ~ Søren Kierkegaard

Prayer begins where human capacity ends. ~ Marian Anderson

Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow. ~ Benjamin Franklin

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