What is the use of praying if at the very moment of prayer, we have so little confidence in God that we are busy planning our own kind of answer to our prayer? (Thomas Merton, Thoughts, 36)
…prayer is then not just a certain formula of words, or a series of desires springing up from the heart – it is the orientation of our whole body, mind, and spirit to God in silence, attention, and adoration. All good meditative prayer is a conversion of our entire self to God. (Thoughts, 48).
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