Soul Food January 2008

On Prayer

From Leo Knowles’ Catholic Book of Quotations

“As far as you can, when you pray, make a deaf-mute of your intellect… Renounce everything and you will obtain everything.” -- Abba Evagrius (Of Prayer)

“Souls without prayer are like bodies, palsied and lame, having hands and feet they cannot use.” -- St. Teresa of Ávila (The Interior Castle)

“You need not cry very loud; he is nearer to us than we think.”-- Brother Lawrence