Prayer is important in our faith journey.   There are many prayer styles.  Spending time with God is important whether it be alone, with nature, or with a group of many.  We pray in our actions and in silence.   We also make a joyful noise in praise and thanksgiving.

The following quotes help us to discover the prayer styles of the saints.

1.   Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.

St. John Vianney

2.  I pray like little children who do not know how to read.  I say very simply to God what I wish to say, without composing beautiful sentences and He always understands me.  

St. Terese of Lisieux

3.  Pray, Love, and don’t worry.

St. Padre Pio

4. Prayer is the place of refugefor ev for cheerfulness, a source of constant happiness, a protection against sadness.

St. John Chrysostom

5.  Prayer is a surge of the heart, it is a simple look toward heaven, it is a cry of recognition ofand of love, embracing both trial and joy.  

St. Therese of Lisieux

6.   Joy is prayer!    Joy is strength. Joy is love. Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

St. Theresa of Calcutta

7.  Prayer is the oxygen of the soul.

8.  We should seek not so much to pray but to become prayer.

St. Francis of Assisi

9.  He prays best who does not know that he is praying.

St. Anthony of Padua

 

10.  Those who pray from the heart do not think about the prayer they are saying, but about the God to whom they pray.

St. Francis de Sales

11. Without prayer, it is impossible to resist temptations and to keep the commandment.

St. Alphonsas Liguori

12.    Be Good.  Love the Lord.  Pray for those who do not know Him.  What agreat grace it is to know God!  

St. Josephine Bakhita

13.  He who labors as he prays lifts his heart to God with his hands.

St. Benedict

14.  Prayer is the wing, wherewith the soul flies to heaven, and meditation the eye wherewith we see God.

St. Ambrose

15.  Prayer is the root, the fountain, the mother of a thousand blessings.

St. John Chrysostom

16.  The test of sincerity of one’s prayer is the willingness to labor on its behalf.

St. John Chrysostom

17.  For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.

St. Teresa of Avila

18.  Prayer is an act of love.  Words are not needed.

St. Teresa of Avila

19.  I prayed in the woods and on the mountain, even before dawn, I felt no hurt from the snow or ice or rain.

St. Patrick

20.  I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us, and we change things.

St. Teresa of Calcutta

21.  Prayer is the best weapon we have; it is the key to God’s heart.  You must speak to Jesus not only with your lips but with your heart.  In fact on certain occasions, you should only speak to Him with your heart.  

St. Padre Pio

22.  To sing is to pray twice.

St. Augustine

23.  Prayer is to the spiritual life, what the beating of the pulse and the drawing of the breath are to the life of the body.

 

24.  Prayer begins by talking to God but it ends by listening to Him.  In the face of Absolute Truth, silence is the soul’s language.

Ven. Fulton Sheen

25.  Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.