Memory, so complete and clear or so evasive, has to be ended, has to be put aside, as if one were leaving a chapel and bringing the prayer to an end in one's head.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When the fire of prayer goes out, the barrenness of busyness takes over.
I find that it takes a lot of years of living, and many more of reckoning, to come up with one worthwhile paragraph. And when a deadline looms, prayer doesn't hurt, either.
The fewer the words, the better the prayer.
Prayer is where the action is.
It always helps to have a bit of prayer in your back pocket. At the end of the day, you have to have something, and for me, that is God, Jesus, my Catholic upbringing, my faith.
It is good for us to keep some account of our prayers, that we may not unsay them in our practice.
Prayer begins where human capacity ends.
Amen is not the end of a prayer, it just gets us ready to go to the next level.
Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.
The real end of prayer is not so much to get this or that single desire granted, as to put human life into full and joyful conformity with the will of God.
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