Peter Kreeft, Prayer For Beginners

Quotes

• “If we rely on anything else besides faith to maintain the practice of the presence of God, we will certainly fail, wheth...”
• “Trusting God's grace means trusting God's love for us rather than our love for God. […] Therefore our prayers should con...”
• “The only way God can strengthen his presence in our will is to weaken his presence in our feelings. Otherwise we would b...”
• “The saints, too, had wandering minds. The saints, too, had constantly to recall their constantly wandering mind-child ho...”
• “Nothing but prayer can make saints because nothing but God can make saints, and we meet God in prayer. Prayer is the hos...”
• “We try too much and trust too little. Count the times God's Book tells us to "try."Now count the times it tells us to "t...”
• “I guarantee you that after you die you will not say 'I spent too much time praying; I wish I had watched more TV instead...”
• “God really performs the miracle of multiplying our time, but only if we give it to him first.”