Spirit; they are a language of love readily understood by this God of love. We naturally think of what we love; hence we can not say we love God if we rarely or never think of Him.
"Aspire to God," says St. Francis of Sales, with short but frequent outpourings of the heart.
" As those who are influenced by human and natural love have their minds and hearts constantly fixed on the objects of their affections; as they speak often in their praise, and when absent lose no opportunity of expressing by letters this affection for them, and can not even pass a tree without inscribing on the bark the name of their beloved; so those who are possessed of divine love have their minds and hearts constantly turned toward the divine object of their love; they are ever thinking of Him, they long after Him; they aspire to Him, and frequently speak of Him; and were it possible, would engrave in the hearts of all mankind the name of their beloved Jesus."
Make use of short indulgenced prayers. Ejaculations approved by the Church are certainly most commendable.
Lift, O Christian, lift thine eyes
To thy home beyond the skies;
Eternal bliss awaits thee there
With which earth's joys can not compare.
6. The Apostleship of Prayer
"We must always pray, and not faint" (Luke xviii. i).
"Pray without ceasing " (i Thess. v. 17).
