PRAYER
AND WANDERING THOUGHTS

I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.

John Donne

It is a shameful thing to quit our conversation with God to think of trifles and fooleries.

Brother Lawrence

We ought to reject them as soon as we perceive their irrelevance to the matter at hand, or to our salvation, and return to our communion with God.

Brother Lawrence