Selected quotes of Pope Benedict XVI offered daily for prayer and reflection….

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Prayer
 


The Church, (and) each one of us, goes through a night of trial, but it is the unceasing vigilance of prayer that sustains us.

 
General Audience
St. Peter's Square
9 May 2012

 
 
 
Prayer
 


Every believer should cultivate a 'constant and trusting' prayer in the Lord who frees us from our chains and guides us...He gives us serenity of heart to face the difficulties of life, even rejection, opposition and persecution.

 
General Audience
St Peter's Square
18 April 2012

 
 
 
Prayer
 


‘You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.’ (Jas 4:3). This situation would change, according to St. James, if the community all spoke together with God, truly praying assiduously and unanimously… We must always learn again how to pray properly, truly pray, moving towards God and not towards our own good.

 
General Audience
St. Peter's Square
9 May 2012

 
 
 
Prayer
 


In prayer we too should be able to lay before God our labors, the suffering of certain situations, of certain days, the daily commitment to following him, to being Christian, and also the weight of the evil that we see within ourselves and around us, so that he may give us hope and make us feel his closeness and give us a little light on the path of life.

 
General Audience
Paul VI Hall
Vatican City
1 February 2012

 
 
 
Prayer
 


Unanimous and constant prayer is a precious instrument in overcoming all of the trials that may arise in the path of life, because it is our being deeply united with God that allows us to also be deeply united to others.

 
General Audience
St. Peter's Square
9 May 2012

 
 
 
Prayer
 


Unanimous and constant prayer is a precious instrument in overcoming all of the trials that may arise in the path of life, because it is our being deeply united with God that allows us to also be deeply. united to others.

 
Angelus Address
St. Peters Square
9 May 2012

 
 
 
Prayer
 


Mary teaches us to pray: not by seeking to assert before God our own will and our own desires, however important they may be, however reasonable they might appear to us, but rather to bring them before him and to let him decide what he intends to do.

 
Homily
Kapellplatz, Altötting
11 September 2006

 
 
 
Prayer
 


Let us ask the Lord for the power to keep awake for Him in prayer, to follow the will of God every day even if he speaks of the Cross, to live in ever increasing intimacy with the Lord and bring a little of God's 'heaven' to this 'earth'.

 
General Audience
Paul VI Hall
1 February 2012

 

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