Sep 22 2009
St John of Kronstadt on prayer
Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving. (Col. 4:2)
As it is the duty of all men and women to fulfil the same commandments of the moral law over and over again, so it is our priestly duty to repeat over and over again the same prayers, beginning with the Lord’s Prayer itself, for it is not by variety of prayers that the soul is strengthened, but by their constant repetition, and so by their being brought into our heart, into our will, and into our whole life.
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Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. (Heb. 13:8)
When you pray with prayers that you have grown accustomed to, from praying them over and over again, remember that the Lord is for all eternity the same. Your heart may change and grow cold, but the same words or the same prayers still have the same power with the Lord, who himself is the same, yesterday, today and for ever.
