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

Prayer is the laying aside of thoughts.

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

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.

Prayer is the fruit of joy and thankfulness.

The Holy Spirit, out of compassion for our weakness, comes to us even when we are impure. And if He finds our intellect truly praying to Him, He enters it and puts to flight the whole array of thoughts and ideas circling within it, and He arouses it to a longing for spiritual prayer.

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