Conversation With Christ Quotes

“There is serious danger in restricting our prayer life to vocal prayer: we stand the risk of becoming victims of that vicious habit of sing-songing our prayers without actually contacting Christ. Furthermore, the true lover wishes to express his affection in his own words, and not rely on the “canned” sentiments of a spiritual writer. In meditation the soul is forced, as it were, to speak directly with Christ; there can be no hiding behind standardized formulae of prayer.”
― Peter-Thomas Rohrbach, Conversation With Christ

“Besides the courage we ought to have in the combat of mental prayer, we must also be firmly convinced that, unless we allow ourselves to be vanquished, our efforts will be crowned with success. Hence, the determined soul need never give way to feelings of discouragement. Despite the difficulties entailed and the persevering effort required, ultimate victory will be ours. The only disaster is to cease trying.”
― Peter-Thomas Rohrbach, Conversation With Christ

“humility strikes a lethal blow at self-love by disengaging us from our native fascination with our own excellence. Pride tends to focus one’s affective powers inward upon himself; humility creates a dissatisfaction with self and turns the soul’s love outward upon God.”
― Peter-Thomas Rohrbach, Conversation With Christ

“RECOLLECTION is the positive preparation for medmeditation;”
― Peter-Thomas Rohrbach, Conversation With Christ

“Every corner of my life which is not permeated with love for You, Jesus, is wasted effort.”
― Peter-Thomas Rohrbach, Conversation With Christ

“love consists, not in the extent of our happiness, but in the firmness of our determination to try to please God in everything, and to endeavor, in all possible ways, not to offend Him, and to pray Him ever to advance the honor and glory of His Son”
― Peter-Thomas Rohrbach, Conversation With Christ

“For, as St. Augustine maintains, the science of prayer is the science of life.”
― Peter-Thomas Rohrbach, Conversation With Christ

“not everyone has by nature an imagination capable of meditating, whereas all souls are capable of love.”
― Peter-Thomas Rohrbach, Conversation With Christ

“He who neglects mental prayer needs not a devil to carry him to hell, but he brings himself there with his own hands.”
― Peter-Thomas Rohrbach, Conversation With Christ

“AGOOD DEAL of the confusion surrounding meditation results from a failure to recognize its basic, fundamental purpose. Simply stated, the aim of meditation is to provide a framework or setting for a personal, heart-to-heart conversation with Christ.”
― Peter-Thomas Rohrbach, Conversation With Christ

“Do you suppose that because we cannot hear Him, He is silent? He speaks clearly to the heart when we beg Him from our heart to do so.”
― Peter-Thomas Rohrbach, Conversation With Christ

“real change in our attitude will only occur when we change the central object of our attention, and when, instead of that object being the self, comes to be God. When, less and less we find ourselves asking God to work miracles for us, and take instead to asking what we can do for Him. When, rather than watching God to see what gift He will produce for us, we begin to wait on God to see what, if anything, we can give to Him.”
― Peter-Thomas Rohrbach, Conversation With Christ

“we ought to be primarily interested in Him and only secondarily in what He can do for us. We don’t pray to exploit Christ; we pray to express our love for Him.”
― Peter-Thomas Rohrbach, Conversation With Christ

“Our Lord has expressed our relationship to Him in quite human terms—”I call you now not servants, but friends”; He expects us to fulfill our part of the relationship in the most common act of friendship, intimate conversation.”
― Peter-Thomas Rohrbach, Conversation With Christ

“The seven circumstances (who, what, where, when, how, why, with what assistance) as applied in meditation aid us to proceed with the consideration in an orderly and rapid manner.”
― Peter-Thomas Rohrbach, Conversation With Christ

“The assistance of the imagination is enlisted to depict in one’s mind a mystery or scene in Our Lord’s life. This is done to facilitate the consequent reflection”
― Peter-Thomas Rohrbach, Conversation With Christ

“The consideration (or meditation, as it is termed by many authors) has been misconstrued as the essential core of meditative prayer; while in reality, it should serve as a prelude to the real function of meditation.”
― Peter-Thomas Rohrbach, Conversation With Christ

“while one may meditate on any subject—the final destiny of man, our sins in the sight of God, the virtues to be practiced—he should devote the major part of his meditations to Christ, the God-man.”
― Peter-Thomas Rohrbach, Conversation With Christ

“We will find our sufficiency in Christ and tend to depend on Him rather than upon ourselves.”
― Peter-Thomas Rohrbach, Conversation With Christ