True prayer is only another name for the love of God. Its excellence does not consist in the multitude of our words; for our Father knoweth what things we have need of before we ask Him. The true prayer is that of the heart, and the heart prays only for what it desires. To pray, then is to desire -- but to desire what God would have us desire. He who asks what he does not from the bottom of his heart desire, is mistaken in thinking that he prays.

Time spent in prayer is never wasted.

I would have no desire other than to accomplish thy will. Teach me to pray; pray thyself in me.

Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

Little opportunities should be improved.

To be faithful in prayer it is indispensable that we arrange all the activities of the day with a regularity that nothing can disturb

All wars are civil ones; for it is still man spilling his own blood, tearing out his own bowels.