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Offline Gray2023

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Saint Quotes on Prayer
« on: September 02, 2025, 05:42:35 PM »
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    • Prayer well made gives much pleasure to the Angels, and therefore it is much assisted by them; it gives great displeasure to the devils, and therefore is much persecuted and disturbed by them.----St. John Chrysostom
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    1 Corinthians: Chapter 13 "4 Charity is patient, is kind: charity envieth not, dealeth not perversely; is not puffed up; 5 Is not ambitious, seeketh not her own, is not provoked to anger, thinketh no evil;"

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    Re: Saint Quotes on Prayer
    « Reply #1 on: September 03, 2025, 04:32:14 PM »
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    • Souls that have no habit of prayer are like a lame and paralytic body, which, though it has hands and feet, cannot use them. Therefore, to abandon prayer seems to me the same thing as to lose the straight road; for as prayer is the gate through which all the graces of God come to us, when this is closed, I do not know how we can have any.----St. Teresa
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    Re: Saint Quotes on Prayer
    « Reply #2 on: September 04, 2025, 02:59:54 PM »
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    • The soul that perseveres in the exercise of prayer, however many sins, temptations and falls of a thousand kinds the devil may oppose to it, may hold it for certain, after all, that the Lord will sooner or later rescue it from danger and guide it into the harbor of salvation.----St. Teresa
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    Re: Saint Quotes on Prayer
    « Reply #3 on: September 05, 2025, 05:44:20 PM »
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    • A man of prayer is capable of everything; therefore, it is of great importance that missionaries should give themselves to this exercise with particular earnestness; and as without it they will gain little or no fruit, so with its help they will become much more able to move hearts and convert souls to their Creator, than by learning and oratorical skill.----St. Vincent de Paul
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    Re: Saint Quotes on Prayer
    « Reply #4 on: September 08, 2025, 01:26:34 PM »
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    • If, while one is praying, he regards and considers the fact that he is conversing with God with more attention than the words that he utters, he is making vocal and mental prayer at once, which may be of much advantage to him. But if he does not consider with Whom he is speaking, nor what he is saying, it may be thought certain that, however much he may move his lips, he prays very little.----St. Teresa
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    Re: Saint Quotes on Prayer
    « Reply #5 on: September 08, 2025, 06:25:23 PM »
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    • St. Patrick of Ireland (fifth century)
    The Prayer of Saint Patrick
    I arise today
    Through a mighty strength, the invocation of the Trinity,
    Through a belief in the Threeness,
    Through confession of the Oneness 
    Of the Creator of creation. 
    I arise today 
    Through the strength of Christ's birth and His baptism, 
    Through the strength of His crucifixion and His burial, 
    Through the strength of His resurrection and His ascension,
    Through the strength of His descent for the judgment of doom. 
    I arise today
    Through the strength of the love of cherubim,
    In obedience of angels,
    In service of archangels,
    In the hope of resurrection to meet with reward,
    In the prayers of patriarchs, 
    In preachings of the apostles,
    In faiths of confessors,
    In innocence of virgins,
    In deeds of righteous men.
    I arise today
    Through the strength of heaven; 
    Light of the sun,
    Splendor of fire,
    Speed of lightning,
    Swiftness of the wind,
    Depth of the sea, 
    Stability of the earth,
    Firmness of the rock. 
    I arise today
    Through God's strength to pilot me;
    God's might to uphold me, 
    God's wisdom to guide me, 
    God's eye to look before me, 
    God's ear to hear me, 
    God's word to speak for me, 
    God's hand to guard me, 
    God's way to lie before me, 
    God's shield to protect me, 
    God's hosts to save me 
    From snares of the devil, 
    From temptations of vices, 
    From every one who desires me ill, 
    Afar and anear, 
    Alone or in a multitude.
    I summon today all these powers between me and evil,
    Against every cruel merciless power that opposes my body and soul, 
    Against incantations of false prophets,
    Against black laws of pagandom,
    Against false laws of heretics,
    Against craft of idolatry, 
    Against spells of women and smiths and wizards,
    Against every knowledge that corrupts man's body and soul. 
    Christ shield me today 
    Against poison, against burning, 
    Against drowning, against wounding,
    So that reward may come to me in abundance. 
    Christ with me, Christ before me, Christ behind me,
    Christ in me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me, 
    Christ on my right, Christ on my left, 
    Christ when I lie down, Christ when I sit down, 
    Christ in the heart of every man who thinks of me, 
    Christ in the mouth of every man who speaks of me, 
    Christ in the eye that sees me, 
    Christ in the ear that hears me. 
    I arise today
    Through a mighty strength, the invocation of the Trinity,
    Through a belief in the Threeness,
    Through a confession of the Oneness
    Of the Creator of creation.
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    Re: Saint Quotes on Prayer
    « Reply #6 on: September 09, 2025, 02:37:51 PM »
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    • After our affections have been moved in prayer, we need not multiply considerations, but stop a little and dwell upon those already made; then, from time to time, say to Our Lord some word of compunction, love or resignation, according as we feel ourselves inclined. This is the best kind of prayer.----St. Jane Frances de Chantal
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    Re: Saint Quotes on Prayer
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    • Souls but little confirmed in piety advance well and happily when the Lord gives them consolations in prayer. But if He afterwards deprives them of these, they immediately become languid and discontented, like children who thank their mother when she gives them sweet things and cry when she takes them away, because they are children, and do not know that a long course of such things is hurtful to them and causes worms. Sensible consolations of the soul often produce the worm of self-satisfaction and that of pride, which is the poison of the soul, and corrupts every good work. This is the reason why the Lord, who gives them to us at first to encourage us, afterwards takes them away that they might not hurt us, and therefore merits no less thanks in taking them away than in giving them.----St. Francis de Sales
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