A holy Franciscan friar named Johannes de Caulibus compiled this list.
If you would:
• Patiently endure adversity … be a person of prayer
• Overcome tribulation and temptations … be a person of prayer
• Trample upon your perverse inclinations … be a person of prayer
• Know the deceits of Satan, and avoid them … be a person of prayer
• Live joyfully in the work of God … be a person of prayer
• Peacefully endure the way of labor and affliction … be a person of prayer
• Exercise yourself in a spiritual course … be a person of prayer
• Not walk according to the desires of the flesh … be a person of prayer
• Put to flight your vain or troubling thoughts … be a person of prayer
• Nourish your soul with holy thoughts … be a person of prayer
• Cultivate in your heart good desires, fervor, and devotion … be a person of prayer
• Strengthen and establish your heart and constant purpose in the service of God … be a person of prayer
• Uproot vice and sin and plant virtue in your soul … be a person of prayer.
Found in the book Into the Deep: Finding Peace Through Prayer”>Into the Deep: Finding Peace Through Prayer – by Attollo Advisory Board member Dan Burke.
