"Prayer is like a secret conversation between the created God and the non-created God, that is to say, like the bond of love of love the unites the finite with the infinite, and allows the totality to know itself in One" ( L. Cattiaux, The Message Rediscovered 9, 52)

"Ask God for the things that deserve to be given by God" (Sixtus, the Pythagorean, in a Treasury of Traditional Wisdom by W. Perry)

"We are carried from supplication to the object of the supplication, and becoming acquainted with her, we begin to become resembled to her, and thus, from imperfection, we silently receive the divine perfection". (Jamblicus, in a Treasury of Traditional Wisdom by W. Perry)

"According to Abu Hurayra, the Prophet said: God will say: I will be for my worshipper, what he believes I must be. I will be with him every time he mentions me; if he mentions me in himself, I will mention him within myself; if he mentions me in public, I will mention him myself and also before an even greater public; if he approaches me a palm, I will approach him a cubit; and if he comes at me a cubit I will go for him an fathom, and if he comes to me walking, I'll run towards him in a full gallop". ( Ahadith from the Prophet Mohammed)