Sentences with phrase «prayer is the elevation»

I want to suggest to you the classical definition of Christian prayer that is found first stated by a great theologian of the earlier days of the Church, St. John of Damascus, and taken over by St. Thomas Aquinas in the thirteenth century: «Prayer is the elevation of the soul to God.»

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I should come back, then, to my insistence that Christian prayer is to take its meaning from our Lord's words, is to be seen as the relating of our wills to God's Will, as the opening of our lives so that God's life may enter in, as the elevation of our personalities to God.

How many of our people, indeed how many of us in the ordained ministry, really understand that prayer is essentially what St. Thomas Aquinas, following St. John Damascene, said it is: «the elevation of the mind to God»?

The ancient Greek theologian John of Damascus said that prayer is «the elevation of the mind to God.»

The classical definition of prayer, given by St. John of Damascus and taken over by St. Thomas Aquinas, is that prayer is «the elevation of the soul to God.»