We must pray in order to grow and we must grow because Infinite Love will not cannot settle for less than the greatest joy of which his beloved creature is capable.

God makes it easy to begin just do it God also makes it easy to progress in prayer for he rewards our efforts with peace and joy. And he makes it easiest of all at the end for it gradually becomes more natural and delightful.

There can be no prevailing in prayer without travailing in prayer.

The gods always hear our prayers but seldom choose to answer.

The flesh resists this daily humiliation first by a frontal attack and later by hiding itself under the words of the spirit i.e. in the name of evangelical liberty. We claim liberty from all legal compulsion from self-martyrdom and mortification and play this off against the proper evangelical use of discipline and asceticism we thus excuse our self-indulgence and irregularity in prayer in meditation and in our bodily life. But the contrast between our behavior and the word of Jesus is all too painfully evident. We forget that discipleship means estrangement from the world and we forget the real joy and freedom which are the outcome of a devout rule of life. As soon as a Christian recognizes that he has failed in his service that his readiness has become feeble and that he has sinned against anothers life and become guilty of anothers guilt that all his joy in God has vanished and that his capacity for prayer has quite gone it is high time for him to launch an assault upon the flesh and prepare for better service by fasting and prayer Luke 237 42 Mark 929 1 Cor. 75.

So take a breath and find what is unsolved in your heart.Breathe in patience breathe in love.Love yourself bountiful.And send that love out to others.When you send love out from the bountifulness of your own love it reaches other people.This love is the deepest power of prayer.

The only way God can strengthen his presence in our will is to weaken his presence in our feelings. Otherwise we would become spiritual cripples unable to walk without emotional crutches. This is why he gives us dryness sufferings and failures.

Mortals were such fickle creatures. They called into the dark demanded answers and attention from forces they could not comprehend and yet when they had that attention and those answers they complained about them.

At these words I was utterly stupefied and terror-stricken. I thought to myself With what tongue shall I address such majesty seeing that all men ought to tremble in the presence of even an earthly prince Who am I that I should lift up mine eyes or raise my hands to the divine Majesty The angels surround him. At his nod the earth trembles. And shall I a miserable little pygmy say I want this I ask for that For I am dust and ashes and full of sin and I am speaking to the living eternal and the true God.

To the infinite all finites are equal.