Simple Prayer

Pray simply. Do not expect to find in your heart any remarkable gift of prayer.  Consider yourself unworthy of it.  Then you will find peace.  Use the empty, dry coldness of your prayer as food for your humility.
-–St. Makari of Optino, 1439

By Tricia Brown

Pray simply. Do not expect to find in your heart any remarkable gift of prayer.  Consider yourself unworthy of it.  Then you will find peace.  Use the empty, dry coldness of your prayer as food for your humility.

-–St. Makari of Optino, 1439

About Patricia D. Brown

Patricia D. Brown is an author and speaker and the founder of Spiritworks.

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