“Prayer gives us strength for great ideals, for keeping up our faith, charity, purity, generosity; prayer gives us strength to rise up from indifference and guilt, if we have had the misfortune to give in to temptation and weakness. Prayer gives us light by which to see and to judge from God’s perspective and from eternity. That is why you must not give up on praying!” -Pope John Paul the Great

For Reflection:

According to this quote by Pope John Paul II, what is the one greatest reason why I must not give up on praying at this moment in my life?

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A person who has come thus far has no trouble understanding the Gospel's insistence on the hard road and the narrow gate, no problem in grasping the nada of St John of the Cross, no difficulty in seeing how and why the saints are so happy.