November 18

“Prayer, . . . not the continual invocation of God in words, but the perpetual and acknowledged recognition in our practice of His wishes, His ways, and His thoughts.”

GEORGE DAWSON

“Think not that my graces slumber
While I toil throughout the day
For all honest work is worship,
And to labour is to pray.”

W. A. BUTLER

“’What a blessed thing active prayer is,’ he said once to a friend. . . . ‘I mean by active prayer, doing everything in God’s presence and for His service.’”

From Life of S. Francis de Sales