5 March 2022
To mutter something with the lips is not praying if one’s heart is not
joined to it. To speak it is necessary first to have conceived interiorly what
we wish to say. There is first the interior word, and then the spoken word,
which causes what the interior has first pronounced to be understood. Prayer is
nothing other than speaking to God. Now it is certain that to speak to God
without being attentive to Him and to what we say to Him is something that is
most displeasing to Him…God tests more the heart of the one who prays rather
than the words pronounced by one who prays.
Saint Francis de Sales
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