Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.

It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin.

In all created things discern the providence and wisdom of God, and in all things give Him thanks.

Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.

Before prayer, endeavour to realise Whose Presence you are approaching and to Whom you are about to speak, keeping in mind Whom you are addressing. If our lives were a thousand times as long as they are we should never fully understand how we ought to behave towards God, before Whom the very Angels tremble, Who can do all He wills, and with Whom to wish is to accomplish.

It is not a matter of thinking a great deal but of loving a great deal, so do whatever arouses you most to love.

Jacob did not cease to be a Saint because he had to attend to his flocks.