Matthew 6:7
Douay-Rheims
And when you are praying, speak not much, as the heathens. For they think that in their much speaking they may be heard.
Gregory the Great
(Mor. xxxiii. 23.) True prayer consists rather in the bitter groans of repentance, than in the repetition of set forms of words.
Source details
A.D. 604 · as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 6:7-8
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.