The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of a farmer who, having sown tares, asks God to bring forth for him a harvest of wheat.
The forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay.
Whether one is Marian or Charismatic or both, or prays in one or more of the many other ways open to us, it is all a flow of love, if the heart is truly speaking to and listening to the Holy Trinity. Personally, I pray the Divine Mercy chaplet every day. We pray the Rosary every day in our family.
Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation the source of strength is one's self. When one prays he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.
Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
He who prays five times a day is in the protection of God, and he who is protected by God cannot be harmed by anyone.
But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
The adage 'a family that prays together, stays together' is so true.