"If we really want to achieve true prayer, we must turn our backs upon everything temporal, everything external, everything that is not divine."

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"If we really want to achieve true prayer, we must turn our backs upon everything temporal, everything external, everything that is not divine."

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"Whoever pray, shall have a pure thought."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Prayer, Thought, Faith, Spirit

"That wish - that prayer - both men and women would have scorned me for - 'But, Father, Thou wilt not despise!' I said, and felt that it was true."

Anne Bronte, British Novelist

Prayer, Faith, Hope, Belief, Spiritual

"Pray until you can pray. And when you can pray, keep praying."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Prayer, Faith, Persistence, Power

"Saints of the early church reaped great harvests in the field of prayer and found the mercy seat to be a mine of untold treasures."

Charles Spurgeon, British Clergyman

Prayer, Faith, Spiritual, Devotion

"The power of prayer is beyond the understanding of man."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Prayer, Power, Inspirational, Faith

"A prayerless Christian is like a bus driver trying alone to push his bus out of a rut because he doesn't know Clark Kent is on board."

John Piper, American Clergyman

Prayer, Strength, Faith, Support

"The trouble with most of our prayers is that we give them as if we were picking up the phone and ordering groceries - we place our order and hang up."

Gordon B. Hinckley, American Clergyman

Prayer, Faith, Patience, Spiritual

"We ought to be silent and listen to the voice of God."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Prayer, Truth, Wisdom, Soul

"You ought to pray for grace to handle the uncertainties in life."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Prayer, Grace, Life, Faith

"Whatever God gives you enjoy!"

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Prayer, God, Blessing, Gratitude, Faith

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"Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying."

Wisdom

"Spiritually good people, pure in heart, who long for the Blessed Sacrament but cannot receive at the time, can receive spiritually... even a hundred times a day, in sickness and in health, with immeasurable grace and profit."

Health

"Your meditations may be as profound, as exalted, as devout as you like; you may practise every pious exercise you can manage, but all this is as nothing in comparison with the Blessed Sacrament. What we do may be godly, but this sacrament is God Himself!"

God

"In the most intimate, hidden and innermost ground of the soul, God is always essentially, actively, and substantially present. Here the soul possesses everything by grace which God possesses by nature."

Nature

"You have within you many strong and cruel enemies to overcome. You must know that there are still a thousand ties which you must break. No one can tell you what they are; only you can tell by looking at yourself and into your heart."

Heart

"You don't have to leave the world to be holy and grow closer to the Holy One."

World

"As a good wine must be kept in a good cask, so a wholesome body is the proper foundation for a well-appointed inner ground."

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"Whoever pray, shall have a pure thought."

"That wish - that prayer - both men and women would have scorned me for - 'But, Father, Thou wilt not despise!' I said, and felt that it was true."

"Pray until you can pray. And when you can pray, keep praying."

"Saints of the early church reaped great harvests in the field of prayer and found the mercy seat to be a mine of untold treasures."

"The power of prayer is beyond the understanding of man."

"A prayerless Christian is like a bus driver trying alone to push his bus out of a rut because he doesn't know Clark Kent is on board."

"The trouble with most of our prayers is that we give them as if we were picking up the phone and ordering groceries - we place our order and hang up."

"We ought to be silent and listen to the voice of God."

"You ought to pray for grace to handle the uncertainties in life."

"Whatever God gives you enjoy!"

Explore more quotes by Johannes Tauler

"God in His wisdom has decided that He will reward no works but His own."

"Man must do his part and detach himself from created things."

"What matters most is a good and ready will to obey God."

"Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying."

"Spiritually good people, pure in heart, who long for the Blessed Sacrament but cannot receive at the time, can receive spiritually... even a hundred times a day, in sickness and in health, with immeasurable grace and profit."

"Your meditations may be as profound, as exalted, as devout as you like; you may practise every pious exercise you can manage, but all this is as nothing in comparison with the Blessed Sacrament. What we do may be godly, but this sacrament is God Himself!"

"In the most intimate, hidden and innermost ground of the soul, God is always essentially, actively, and substantially present. Here the soul possesses everything by grace which God possesses by nature."

"You have within you many strong and cruel enemies to overcome. You must know that there are still a thousand ties which you must break. No one can tell you what they are; only you can tell by looking at yourself and into your heart."

"You don't have to leave the world to be holy and grow closer to the Holy One."

"As a good wine must be kept in a good cask, so a wholesome body is the proper foundation for a well-appointed inner ground."