The Lord taught us to pray for our sins and our faults,
and also promised to show a father’s mercy and love.

 
St. Cyprian, 3rd century

The Lord’s prayer is the most perfect of prayers;
in it, we ask not only for all the things we can rightly desire,
but the order in which we should desire them.

 
St. Thomas Aquinas, 13th century

While we are still in the midst of the evils of this world,
let us sing ‘alleluia’ to the good God
who delivers us from evil.

 
St. Augustine, 5th century

The Lord taught us to pray for our sins and our faults,
and also promised to show a father’s mercy and love.

 
St. Cyprian, 3rd century

The happiness we choose for ourselves
will never bring us to the joy of finding his will.
We must fix our love on God, bit by bit,
aligning our own will with his.

 
St. Bernard of Clairvaux, 12th century

The Devil doesn't sleep,
but seeks our ruin in a thousand ways.

 
St. Angela Merici, 16th century

Christ gave this prayer and used it.
His apostles used it; all the saints ever since have used it.
When we pray it, we seem to join company with them.

 
Bl. John Henry Newman, 19th century

We must beseech God to deliver us from perils forever
and to keep us from all evil!
What does it cost us to ask it,
since we ask it of One who is so powerful?

 
St. Teresa of Avila, 16th century