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Real prayer requires discipline; it requires making time for moments of silence every day. Often it means waiting for the Lord to speak. Even amid the “busyness” and the stress of our daily lives, we need to make space for silence, because it is in silence that we find God, and in silence that we discover our true self.

 
Address to Youth
Westminster Cathedral
London, England
18 September 2010

 
 
 
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Look into your hearts each day to find the source of all true love. Jesus is always there, quietly waiting for us to be still with him and to hear his voice. Deep within your heart, he is calling you to spend time with him in prayer.

 
Address
Westminster Cathedral
London, England
19 September 2010

 
 
 
Prayer
 


Prayer allows us to gain a new concept of time. Without the perspective of eternity and transcendence, in fact, time simply directs our steps towards a horizon without a future. Instead, when we pray, we find time for God, to understand that his "words will not pass away" (cf. Mk 13: 31), to enter into that intimate communion with Him "that no one shall take from you" (Jn 16: 22), opening us to the hope that does not disappoint: eternal life.

 
Lenten Message
22 February 2011

 
 
 
Prayer
 


Man seeks God better and finds him more easily ‘with prayer than with discussion’.

 
General Audience
St Peter's Square
21 October 2009

 
 
 
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How can we encounter the Lord and increasingly become his authentic witnesses? St Maximus of Turin stated: “Anyone who wishes to reach the Savior must first, in his own faith, seat him at the right hand of the Divinity, and place him with heartfelt conviction in Heaven”, in other words one must learn to focus the gaze of one’s mind and heart constantly on the heights of God, where the Risen Christ is. In this way God encounters man in prayer and adoration.

 
Regina Caeli
Castel Gandolfo
25 April 2011

 
 
 
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"I am the good shepherd; I know my own and my own know me, as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep" (Jn 10: 14-15)...this "knowing" and "being known" in Christ and, through him, in the Most Holy Trinity, is none other than the most true and deep reality of prayer.

 
Homily
St Peter's Basilica
Fourth Sunday of Easter
3 May 2009

 
 
 
Prayer
 


The more we love God and enter into intimate contact with Him through prayer, the more He makes Himself known and enflames our hearts with His love.

 
General Audience
Paul VI Hall
12 January 2011

 
 
 
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Let us not fear to create silence, within and outside ourselves, if we wish to be able not only to become aware of God's voice but also to make out the voice of the person beside us, the voices of others.

 
Homily
Sulmona, Italy
4 July 2010

 

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