What is prayer?
Prayer is
turning the heart toward God. When a person prays, he enters into a living relationship
with God. [2558-2565]
Prayer is the great gate leading into
faith. Someone who prays no longer lives on his own, for himself, and by his
own strength. He knows there is a God to whom he can talk. People who pray
entrust themselves more and more to God. Even now they seek union with the one
whom they will encounter one day face to face. Therefore, the effort to pray
daily is part of Christian life. Of course, one cannot learn to pray in the
same way one learns a technique. As strange as it sounds, prayer is a gift one obtains
through prayer.
For me, prayer is a surge of the heart; it is a simple look
turned toward heaven, it is a cry of recognition and of love, embracing both
trial and joy.
ST. THÉRÈSE OF LISIEUX
(1873-1897)
The desire to pray is already a prayer.
GEORGES BERNANOS
(1888-1948, French writer)
Do what you can, and pray for what you cannot, and so God
will grant you the ability to do it.
ST. AUGUSTINE
(354-430)
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