<\/span><\/p>\nMan has a noble task: that of prayer and love. To pray and to love, that is the happiness of man on earth.<\/p>\n
Prayer is nothing else than union with God. When the heart is pure and united with God it is consoled and filled with sweetness; it is dazzled by a marvellous light.<\/p>\n
In this intimate union, God and the soul are like two pieces of wax moulded into one; they cannot any more be separated. It is a very wonderful thing, this union of God with his insignificant creature; happiness passing all understanding.<\/p>\n
We had deserved to be left incapable of praying; but God in his goodness has permitted us to speak to him. Our prayer is an incense that is delightful to God.<\/p>\n
My children, your hearts are small, but prayer enlarges them and renders them capable of loving God.<\/p>\n
Prayer is a foretaste of heaven, an overflowing of heaven. It never leaves us without sweetness; it is like honey, it descends into the soul and sweetens everything.<\/p>\n
In a prayer well made, troubles vanish like snow under the rays of the sun.<\/p>\n
Prayer makes time seem to pass quickly, and so pleasantly that one fails to notice how long it is.<\/p>\n
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