Father Francis Suarez on Prayer

A priest pauses with clasped hands beside a window, with closed books and blank paper on his desk.
Learning, too, can make room for silence before God.

I am willing to lose all my science rather than one hour of prayer.

Further reading

The saying attributed to Suarez places prayer before even his accumulated learning. Dom Jean-Baptiste Chautard’s The Soul of the Apostolate develops a related priority: an interior life with God that sustains outward work and service.

The Soul of the Apostolate by Dom Jean-Baptiste Chautard (paperback) on Amazon (paid link)