"Prayer gives us the courage to emerge from indifference and sin if, unfortunately, we have yielded to temptation and weakness"
--Pope John Paul II
"In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart."
--John Bunyan
"There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful than that of a continual conversation with God."
--Brother Lawrence
"Why is it so important that you are with God and God alone on the mountain top? It's important because it's the place in which you can listen to the voice of the One who calls you the beloved. To pray is to listen to the One who calls you "my beloved daughter," "my beloved son," "my beloved child." To pray is to let that voice speak to the center of your being, to your guts, and let that voice resound in your whole being."
--Henri Nouwen
