Thirsting for Prayer Quotes

“There are many souls who think they do not have prayer, yet they have much; and, on the contrary, others who think they have much prayer but have very little.”
― Jacques Philippe, Thirsting for Prayer

“The more God is at the center of our lives, and the more we expect everything from him and him alone, the better chance our human relationships will have of being well-balanced and happy.”
― Jacques Philippe, Thirsting for Prayer

“There are many souls who think they do not have prayer, yet they have much; and, on the contrary, others who think they have much prayer but have very little. In”
― Jacques Philippe, Thirsting for Prayer

“Observe this beautiful fact: By bringing us into communion with God, prayer makes us share in God’s creativity. Contemplation nourishes our creative faculties and our inventiveness, particularly in the realm of beauty. Contemporary art is cruelly lacking in inspiration and very often produces nothing but painful ugliness, when people are so thirsty for beauty. Only a renewal of faith and prayer will enable artists to rediscover the sources of true creativity, so that they will once again be able to provide people with the beauty they so badly need, as was done by Fra Angelico, Rembrandt, or Johann Sebastian Bach. 5.”
― Jacques Philippe, Thirsting for Prayer

“Even in the natural order, all genuine love is a victory of weakness. Loving is not dominating or possessing, imposing oneself on the person loved. Loving means that one welcomes the other person without putting up any defenses. In return, one is certain of being welcomed totally by that person without being judged, condemned, or compared. There are no more trials of strength between two people who love each other.”
― Jacques Philippe, Thirsting for Prayer

“True peace does not come as the result of a process of human reasoning. It can only come from having our hearts attached to the promises God makes us through his Word.”
― Jacques Philippe, Thirsting for Prayer

“What makes possible this inner illumination that gives us access to the riches of the Word? I think the essential thing is a genuine desire for conversion. If we read Scripture while praying, confident that God is awaiting us there, and in a sincere desire for his Word to touch our hearts, show us our sins, lead us to a true conversion, and if we are resolved to put into practice what he tells us, then Scripture will be illuminated for us. That is the main secret of exegesis. I”
― Jacques Philippe, Thirsting for Prayer

“Hope consists, amidst radical poverty, of expecting everything from God with full confidence. God will give us his gifts not according to our virtues, our qualities, our merits, or our good deeds, but according to our hope.”
― Jacques Philippe, Thirsting for Prayer

“Giving God absolute first place in relation to every other reality (work, relationships, etc.) is the only way of establishing a right relationship to things that involves a genuine investment and a healthy detachment enabling us to safeguard our inner freedom and the unity of our lives. Otherwise we fall into indifference and carelessness or, just the opposite, into dependency, invasiveness, distraction, and needless anguish. The”
― Jacques Philippe, Thirsting for Prayer

“If your feelings or your intelligence do not give God to you, faith will. It is enough to make a humble, sincere act of faith for you to be in contact with God from that moment, with absolute certainty. Faith, and faith alone, establishes real contact with the living presence of God. When”
― Jacques Philippe, Thirsting for Prayer

“One of the desert fathers said: Obedience responds to obedience. If someone obeys God, God responds to that person’s request.5 Shortly”
― Jacques Philippe, Thirsting for Prayer

“Someone who persists in praying day after day is like a man who acquires an old house in the country with a well in the garden. The well has not been used for maybe the last hundred years and is blocked up. The man thinks it would be a good idea to restore it to use, so he starts clearing it. To begin with, it is not very pleasant: he finds dead leaves, stones, mud, and all sorts of rubbish, some of it quite disgusting. If he does not give up, but continues toiling away, in the end he discovers at the bottom of the well water that is clear, fresh, and unbelievably thirst-quenching. That”
― Jacques Philippe, Thirsting for Prayer

“The God we come to know in prayer is the personal God, the living and true God, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ; the God who speaks to the heart, as Pascal expressed it.”
― Jacques Philippe, Thirsting for Prayer