Prayer is a “turning of the heart” to God and consequently “a bringing about a change in the one who prays and not in God” (On...

“When we cherish uninterupted desire along with faith, hope and charity we pray always” (Letter 130. 9.18)

“You praise God when you do your daily work, you praise God when you take your food and drink, you praise him when you rest upon...

“He who prays with desire sings in his heart, even though his tounge be silent. But if he prays without desire he is dumb before God,...

In order that we may attain this happy life, he who is himself the true Blessed Life has taught us how to pray” (Letter 130.15)

Prayer is “the affectionate reaching out of the mind to God” (Sermon 9.3)

“What I mean by charity or live is any urge of the spirit to find joy in God for his own sake and in onself and...

“Following after God is the desire for happiness, to reach God is happiness itself”. (Morals of C Church XI. 18)

“I had been extremely miserable in adolescence, miserable from its very onset, and as I prayed for the gift of chastity I had pleaded, ‘ Give...

“Praise God with the whole of yourselves; it is not only your tounge and your voice that should praise him, but your conscience, your life, your...