Jacob Medina’s Reviews > Wounded by Love > Status Update

“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.”