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Prayer can truly change your life. For it turns your attention away from yourself and directs your mind and your heart toward the Lord. If we look only at ourselves, with our own limitations and sins, we quickly give

Prayer can truly change your life. For it turns your attention away from yourself and directs your mind and your heart toward the Lord. If we look only at ourselves, with our own limitations and sins, we quickly give way to sadness and discouragement. But if we keep our eyes fixed on the Lord, then our hearts are filled with hope, our minds are washed n the light of truth, and we come to know the fullness of the Gospel with all is promise and life.

Pope John Paul II
Prayer, Heart, Sadness

We must reflect the light of Christ through lives of prayer and joyful service to others.

Pope John Paul II
Prayer, Light, Christ

Nobody is so poor he has nothing to give, and nobody is so rich he has nothing to receive.

Pope John Paul II
Christian, Prayer, Giving

If you really wish to follow Christ, if you want your love for him to grow and last, then you must be faithful to prayer. It is the key to the vitality of your life in Christ. Without prayer, your faith and love will die. If you are constant in daily prayer and in the Sunday celebration of Mass, your love for Jesus will increase. And your heart will know deep joy and peace, such as the world could never give.

Pope John Paul II
Jesus, Prayer, Heart
Pope John Paul II (2002). “Pope John Paul II in My Own Words”, Gramercy Books

We can pray perfectly when we are out in the mountains or on a lake and we feel at one with nature. Nature speaks for us or rather speaks to us. We pray perfectly.

Pope John Paul II
Prayer, Lakes, Mountain
Pope John Paul II (1995). “The Way of Prayer”, Crossroad Classic

Christ remains primary in your life only when he enjoys the first place in your mind and heart. Thus you must continuously unite yourself to him in prayer.... Without prayer there can be no joy, no hope, no peace. For prayer is what keeps us in touch with Christ.

Pope John Paul II
Prayer, Heart, Joy
Pope John Paul II (1979). “U.S.A.--the Message of Justice, Peace, and Love: Pastoral Visit of Pope John Paul II, October 1-7, 1979”

Prayer gives us strength for great ideals, for keeping up our faith, charity, purity, generosity; prayer gives us strength to rise up from indifference and guilt, if we have had the misfortune to give in to temptation and weakness. Prayer gives us light by which to see and to judge from God's perspective and from eternity. That is why you must not give up on praying!

Pope John Paul II
Prayer, Giving Up, Light

Jesus himself has shown us by his own example that prayer and fasting are the first and most effective weapons against the forces of evil.

Pope John Paul II
Jesus, Prayer, Evil

The Rosary is a prayer both so humble and simple and a theologically rich in Biblical content. I beg you to pray it.

Pope John Paul II
Christian, Prayer, Humble

Offer Christ your heart in meditation and personal prayer which is the foundation of the spiritual life.

Pope John Paul II
Spiritual, Prayer, Heart

When our whole life is one faith, hope, love, prayer and silence, a consecrated life always bound up in the Eucharist, then the 'urge' towards God springs.

Pope John Paul II
Prayer, Spring, Silence

What have I done with my baptism and confirmation? Is Christ really at the center of my life? Do I have time for prayer in my life? Do I live my life as a vocation and mission?

Pope John Paul II
Prayer, Baptism, Done

...Be holy men and women! Do not forget that the fruits of the apostolate depend on the depth of the spiritual life, on the intensity of prayer, of continual formation and sincere adhesion to the directives of the Church.

Pope John Paul II
Spiritual, Prayer, Men

The Rosary is my favorite prayer. A marvelous prayer! Marvelous in its simplicity and its depth. In the prayer we repeat many times the words that the Virgin Mary heard from the Archangel, and from her kinswoman Elizabeth.

Pope John Paul II
Prayer, Simplicity, Rosary

Prayer finds its source in God's holiness and it is at the same time our response to this holiness.

Pope John Paul II
Prayer, Holiness, Source

Prayer joined to sacrifice constitutes the most powerful force in human history.

Pope John Paul II
Prayer, Powerful, Sacrifice
Pope John Paul II, Greg Burke (1999). “An Invitation to Joy”, p.111, Simon and Schuster

Prayer gives us light by which to see and to judge from God's perspective and from eternity. That is why you must not give up on praying!

Pope John Paul II
Prayer, Giving Up, Light

The unworthy successor of Peter who desires to benefit from the immeasurable wealth of Christ feels the great need of your assistance, your prayers, your sacrifice, and he most humbly asks this of you.

Pope John Paul II
Prayer, Sacrifice, Desire

I hurry to express to you and your fellow citizens my profound sorrow and my closeness in prayer for the nation at this dark and tragic moment.

Pope John Paul II
Prayer, Dark, Profound

It is the responsibility of Pastors to encourage, also by their personal witness, the practice of Eucharistic adoration, and exposition of the Blessed Sacrament in particular, as well as prayer of adoration before Christ present under the Eucharistic species.

Pope John Paul II
Prayer, Blessed, Responsibility
Pope John Paul II (2003). “The Eucharist in the life of the church: encyclical letter of Pope John Paul II, Ecclesia de eucharistia, with three presentations from the 3rd Nigerian National Eucharistic Congress, Ibadan, November 15-17, 2002”

The Rosary is my favorite prayer. A prayer so simple and so rich; from deepest heart, I exhort all to recite it.

Pope John Paul II
Prayer, Heart, Simple

The Rosary is my favorite prayer.

Pope John Paul II
Christian, Prayer, Rosary

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