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Fr. Robert Spitzer, S.J., Ph.D.July 25, 2016< 1 min read

Getting Started on Prayer - Spontaneous Prayers

Readers who are familiar with the Four Levels of Happiness will recognize that ultimate happiness can only occur through the satisfaction of our desires for perfect truth, love, justice (goodness), beauty, and home (see the free video and article on the Four Levels of Happiness.

As we show in other resources, God alone is perfect truth, love, justice (goodness), beauty, and home (see the free resources on this website at the bottom of this article on proofs of God and evidence of God from physics, as well as evidence for our transphysical soul from near death experiences).

Getting Started with Prayer

This means that God alone will be able to completely satisfy us. As Augustine said at the beginning of The Confessions: “For you have made us for yourself, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you.”

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Fr. Robert Spitzer, S.J., Ph.D.
Fr. Robert J. Spitzer, S.J., Ph.D. is a Catholic Priest in the Jesuit order (Society of Jesus) and is currently the President of the Magis Center and the Spitzer Center. He has made many TV appearances including: Larry King Live (debating Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow), the Today Show (debating on the topic of active euthanasia), The History Channel in “God and The Universe,” a multiple part PBS series “Closer to the Truth,” and the Hugh Hewitt Show. Currently appearing weekly on EWTN in “Father Spitzer’s Universe“.
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Lenten Prayer: Ignite a Flame in Our Hearts

Heavenly Father,It is so difficult to wrap our minds around Your infinite mercy and desire to save us so manifest in Your ...
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Lenten Prayer: An Act of Unrestricted Love

Heavenly Father,You revealed Your true intention in sending Your Son into the world to sacrifice Himself in an act of ...
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Lenten Prayer: Fount of Salvation

Heavenly Father, We are so grateful that Your Son made Himself the universal and eternal temple through His own risen body—a ...
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