Do not be troubled if you do not immediately receive from God what you ask Him; for He desires to do something even greater for you, while you cling to Him in prayer.

A monk is a man who considers himself one with all men because he seems constantly to see himself in every man.

Prayer is the fruit of joy and thankfulness.

If your spirit still looks around at the time of prayer, then it does not yet pray as a monk. You are no better than a man of affairs engaged in a kind of landscape gardening.

Do not be troubled if you do not immediately receive from God what you ask Him; for He desires to do something even greater for you, while you cling to Him in prayer.

A man who worships in Spirit and Truth no longer honors the Creator because of His works, but praises Him because of Himself.

If you patiently accept what comes, you will always pray with joy.