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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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"More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones."

"Is there any purity like prayer?"

"Thank you Heavenly Father. You heard my petition. You have answered my plea. May your name be glorified and be praised."

"Oh God, please find it within your heart to grant me a heart that looks after itself only because it has first looked after others. And help me to realize that anything less is not a heart."
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"Never believe that true prayer consists in mere babbling, reciting so many psalms and vigils, saying your beads while you allow your thoughts to roam."

"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."

"In the kingdom of heaven it is His work that will be crowned, not yours. Anything in you that He has not wrought Himself will count for nothing."

"If you fall seventy times a day, rise seventy times and return to God so that you will not fall too often."

"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."

"God touches and moves, warns and desires all equally, and He wants one quite as much as another. The inequality lies in the way in which His touch, His warnings, and His gifts are received."
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