Madame Jeanne Guyon

What is prayer? Prayer is a certain warmth of love. ah but much more. Prayer is a melting! Prayer is a dissolving and an uplifting of the soul. This warmth of love, this melting, this dissolving, this uplifting causes the soul to ascend to God. As the soul is melted, sweet fragrance begins to rise from it. these fragrances pour forth from a consuming fire of love… and that love is in you. It is a consuming fire of love in your innermost being, a fire of love for God.