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“All matters are sorted out with prayer. But your prayer must be en-dued with love and fire. You mustn't have anxiety, but trust in God's love and providence.”

“Prayer is beneficial for everything, even for the simplest of things.”

“Pray to God with love and yearning, in tranquility, with meekness, gently and without forcing yourself.” And when you repeat the prayer ‘Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on me’, say it slowly, humbly, gently and with divine love. Pronounce the name of Christ with sweetness.”

“Pray for God to reveal to you the ‘unseen’ things. There is much that we do not know. Say to Christ, ‘Whatever You want. Whatever Your love desires.’ He will lead you. Look to Him.”

“Aspire always for the glory of God.”

“Give yourself over to the worship of God in secret. But be careful!”

“A single seductive thought, ‘I have really made progress’, for example, brings everything to naught. Why should we be proud? We have nothing that is our own.”

“Force, therefore, is not the way to acquire prayer. Pray without calculations, without ulterior motives, not in order to gain anything.”

“There is no point in making a hundred prostrations if they leave you unmoved. Make only twenty or fifteen, but with fervor and love for the Lord and in conformity with His divine commandments.”

“(The Jesus prayer) is the key to the spiritual life. It is a prayer that cannot be taught either by books, or by spiritual fathers or by anyone else. Its sole teacher is divine grace.”

“Simplicity is holy humility, that is, absolutely trust in Christ, when we give our whole life to Christ.”

“In our prayer we should ask only for the salvation of our soul.”

“We shouldn't continue relentlessly in order to acquire what we want; rather we should leave things to the will of God. Because the more we pursue something, the more it runs away from us. So what is required is patience, faith and composure.”

“We shouldn't blackmail God with our prayers. We shouldn't ask God to release us from something, from an illness, for example, or to solve our problems, but we should ask for strength and support from Him to bear what we have to bear. Just as He knocks discretely at the door of our soul, so we should ask discretely for what we desire and if the Lord does not respond, we should cease to ask.“

“Our prayers are not heard because we are not worthy. You must become worthy in order to pray. We are not worthy because we do not love our neighbor as our self.”

“On every occasion when something happens to you, place the blame on yourself. Pray with humility and don't seek to justify yourself. If, for example, you find yourself the object of enmity, pray with love so that you pour love over the enmity. If you hear a slander against you, then pray and be careful, because the noise of murmurings shall not be hidden.”

“When the mind moves in prayer, divine grace comes in a split second.”

“The important thing is to love Christ, prayer and meditation on His words. In prayer human effort represents only a tiny millionth part “

“In order to not live in darkness, turn on the switch of prayer so that divine light may flood your soul.”

“It is bad to despair, because someone who despairs becomes embittered and loses his willingness and strength. Someone who has hope, on the contrary, advances forward.”