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During mental prayer...remain before God like a poor, mute paralytic at the door of a rich man.

I worshiped Him the oftenest that I could, keeping my mind in His holy Presence, and recalling it as often as I found it wandered from Him. I found no small pain in this exercise, and yet I continued it, notwithstanding all the difficulties that occurred, without troubling or disquieting myself when my mind had wandered involuntarily. I made this my business, as much all the day long as at the appointed times of prayer; for at all times, every hour, every minute, even in the height of my business, I drove away from my mind everything that was capable of interrupting my thought of GOD.

During mental prayer...remain before God like a poor, mute paralytic at the door of a rich man.

It would be a mistake to think that the period of mental prayer should be different from any other.

During mental prayer...remain before God like a poor, mute paralytic at the door of a rich man.