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the best prayer
"Prayer is the cry of our hearts to God. So it must be something perfectly natural, perfectly genuine, the expression of the deepest things in our heart. It is not your lips that should speak, nor your mind, but your will. Your will manifested, spread out before your Father, true, naked, sincere, simple, and presented before Him by you. This is what prayer should be. This needs neither a long space of time nor many words, nor many thoughts. It varies: sometimes it will be longer, sometimes quite short, according as your heart's desire prompts you.
"Prayer, in the widest sense of the word, may be either a silent contemplation or one accompanied by words. The best prayer is the most loving prayer. The more it is laden with love, the more the soul holds itslef tenderly and lovingly before its God, the more acceptable is that prayer."
--Charles de Foucauld
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