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The Ways of Mental Prayer QUOTES

The Ways of Mental Prayer QUOTES

1 " We must not confine ourselves to reciting the words [in prayer] with our lips; it is necessary that we should raise to God our mind by attention, our heart by devotion, and our will by submission. "

― Vitalis Lehodey , The Ways of Mental Prayer

2 " The rule recognised by spiritual authors is this: meditation for beginners, affective prayer for proficients, active or passive contemplation for advanced souls. "

― Vitalis Lehodey , The Ways of Mental Prayer

3 " temptation cannot cross the limit set to it by the divine good pleasure; it always has a providential purpose; it attacks us on our weak side, and obliges us to fortify that; it instructs us, spurs us on, crushes pride, excites to prayer, calls for austerities and elicits great resolutions; thus the demon becomes, in his own despite, one of the most active agents of our union with God. "

― Vitalis Lehodey , The Ways of Mental Prayer