Quotes About Love

Prayer is not so much a way to find God as a way of resting in him...who loves us, who is near to us.

The Prayer of the sick person is his patience and his acceptance of his sickness for the love of Jesus Christ. Make sickness itself a prayer, for there is none more powerful, save martyrdom!

Why pray if we cannot change God? ...is that why we pray? To change omniscient Love? Isn't it rather to learn what it is and to fulfill it? Not to change it by our acts, but to change our acts by it.

What we most need is the prayer of fervent desire for growth in grace, expressed in patience, meekness, love, and good deeds.

He prayeth best who loveth best.

He that loveth little prayeth little, he that loveth much prayeth much.

Without loving and caring for others, most of us stand little chance of communing with God/the Divine Wisdom, no matter how many years we may spend in silent prayer.

Persistence in prayer for someone whom we don't like, however much it goes against the grain to begin with, brings about a remarkable change in attitude.

The mystery of the Cross, a mystery of love, can only be understood in prayer. Pray and weep, kneeling before the Cross.

It is necessary to rouse the heart to pray, otherwise it will become quite dry. The attributes of prayer must be: love of God, sincerity, and simplicity.

Prayer means lovingly contemplating the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, allowing our hearts to be enkindled to praise and adore the love and omnipotence of the most blessed Trinity.

The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.

God is not only a divine person who we can address in prayer, but also a wide living space We human beings are giving each other space for living when we meet each other in love and friendship.

It is impossible to pray for someone without loving him, and impossible to go on praying for him without discovering that our love for him grows and matures.

You have to listen to the one who calls you beloved. That has to be affirmed over and over again. That is prayer - listening to the voice of the one who calls you "the beloved."

A wife's prayers for her husband have a far greater effect on him than anyone else's, even his mother's. (Sorry, Mom.)

Intercessory prayer might be defined as loving our neighbour on our knees.

Scatter good will and love and prayers all around, everywhere, and you will be astonished, not only by what it does for other people, but how it comes back to you in generous abundance.

The love ofChrist is my prayer-book

Let all beings in all the worlds be happy. Include this universal prayer in your prayers every day. This is my birthday message to you.

The most eloquent prayer is the prayer through hands that heal and bless.

Each activity of daily life in which we stretch ourselves on behalf of others is a prayer in action.

Our Lord is the ground from whom our prayer grows and in his love and grace he himself gives us our prayers.

Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.