Pray to God, ‘You are the Spirit, and I am only the trumpet, and without your breath I can give no sound.’
Clearly, what God wants, above all, is our will, which we received as a free gift from God in creation and possess as though our own. When a man trains himself to acts of virtue, it is with the help of grace from God, from whom all good things come … The will is what man has, as his unique possession - St Joseph of Cupertino.
O Lord our God! You are one in nature. You are one in number. Truly have you said that besides you there is no God. For though many may be called gods or thought to be gods, you alone are by nature God. You are the true God from whom, in whom and through whom all things are; you are blessed forever.
Worldly love is nothing more than loving oneself! Worldly love aims at pleasing everyone and saddening no-one. Many call this politeness but, it is simply, self-praise and flattery - Saint Anthony Zaccaria
It seems to me that we do not pay enough attention to prayer, for unless it arises from the heart which ought to be its centre, it is no more than a fruitless dream. Prayer ought to carry over into our thoughts, our words and our actions.
