Dan Everiss
<oregdan@hotmail.com> | Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 11:56 AM |
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"Someone,
who when, during prayer, became languid and feeble in mind and body,
and he longed to sleep, roused himself by the following inward question:
With Whom art thou conversing, my soul? And after this, by vividly
representing the Lord before him, he began to pray with great feeling
and tears; his blunted attention was sharpened, his mind and heart were
enlightened, and he himself wholly revived. This shows what it is to
represent the Lord God vividly to ourselves, and to walk in His
presence! If - he went on to say - my soul, thou darest not converse
languidly and carelessly with men above thyself in station, in order not
to offend them, then how darest thou converse languidly and carelessly
with the Lord?"
(My Life in Christ, St. John of Kronstadt, page 150)
"You do not want to pray for the man whom you hate and despise; but you must
do so against your wish, and have recourse to the great Physician,
because you yourself are spiritually sick of the malady of malice and
pride; your enemy or the one whom you despise is also sick; pray that
the meek Lord may teach you meekness and patience, that He may teach and
strengthen you to love your enemies, and not only your well-wishers;
that He may teach you to pray sincerely for the evilly-disposed as well
as for the well-disposed."
(My Life in Christ, St. John of Kronstadt)
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