In Constant Prayer Quotes

“The paradox of worship is this: we perform these acts of worship, but they are not actually for us. We do these things for God, and then we are the ones who are changed.”
― Robert Benson, In Constant Prayer

“Always we begin again,” wrote Saint Benedict.”
― Robert Benson, In Constant Prayer

“Liturgical time is essentially poetic time, oriented toward
process rather than productivity, willing to wait attentively
in stillness rather than always “pushing” to get the job done. —KATHLEEN NORRIS”
― Robert Benson, In Constant Prayer

“Sometimes it occurs to me that I am a member of the first generation of followers of Yahweh in six thousand years for whom the offering of daily fixed-hour worship and praise and prayer—a tradition practiced and treasured and passed down to us from the Hebrews to the apostles to the early Christians to the fathers and mothers of the faith who sustained this Church we now call home—is no longer deemed a necessity or an obligation or a duty or even an opportunity.”
― Robert Benson, In Constant Prayer

“The truth dazzles gradually,” wrote Emily Dickinson, “or else the world would go blind.”
― Robert Benson, In Constant Prayer

“Personal prayer does not dispense us from corporate prayer. The one sustains the other.”
― Robert Benson, In Constant Prayer