If we want to pray from our heart for our fellow human being, we must feel his pain. We must stop being selfish and start loving and supporting our fellow human beings if we want our prayer to come from our heart. We must feel for him.
Agios Paisios of Mount Athos
No prayer goes to waste. Prayer kept me going on for so many years.
Agios Iakovos Tsalikis
When we live by the grace of God, then our prayer becomes pure. We should pray all the time, when lying in bed, going for sleep or resting.
Agios Porphyrios Bairaktaris
Whenever you pray, you should remember your passions, your weaknesses, the ease with which you escape and fall, remember that Christ can restrain you.
Elder Joel
You shall kneel down and say: Hold me, my God, not to abandon you.
Elder Joel
When a person prays, he must feel that he is a little child and God is the affectionate father who will give anything his child wants providing it is good for it.
Agios Paisios of Mount Athos
I asked in my prayer from God to give me the gift to see the people’s hearts reflected on their faces so that I can help them. And God gave it to me.
Agios Iakovos
You should repent whenever you pray. Even if it makes you feel tired. The prayer accompanied by voluntary sacrifice becomes more pleasing to God and more effective.
Agios Porphyrios Bairaktaris
*The article was originally published in Greek in ikivotos.gr
