Quotes About Contemplation

Prayer is an act of love. Words are not needed.

Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts.

Seek in reading and you will find in meditation; knock in prayer and it will be opened to you in contemplation.

Through prayer we speak to God. In meditation, God speaks to us.

Those who pray from the heart do not think about the prayer they are saying, but about the God to whom they pray.

In prayer, more is accomplished by listening than by talking.

Prayer is like a secret garden made up of silence and rest and inwardness. But there are a thousand and one doors into this garden and we all have to find our own.

We should seek not so much to pray but to become prayer.

There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful, than that of a continual conversation with God; those only can comprehend it who practice and experience it.

Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.

It is a good rule never to look into the face of a man in the morning till you have looked into the face of God.

The great method of prayer is to have none. If in going to prayer one can form in oneself a pure capacity for receiving the spirit of God, that will suffice for all method.

The root of prayer is interior silence.

If you have ever prayed in the dawn you will ask yourself why you were so foolish as not to do it always: it is difficult to get into communion with God in the midst of the hurly-burly of the day.

She entered a state where prayer and poetry became one and the everyday world seemed full of holiness and significance.

When the fire of prayer goes out, the barrenness of busyness takes over.

Prayer is the oxygen of the soul.

Pray inwardly, even if you do not enjoy it. It does good, though you feel nothing. Yes, even though you think you are doing nothing.

To pray is to listen, to move through my own chattering to God, to that place where I can be silent and listen to what God may have to say.

If we would talk less and pray more about them, things would be better than they are in the world: at least, we should be better enabled to bear them.

The lover of silence draws close to God. He talks to Him in secret and God enlightens him.

Whole days and weeks have I spent prostrate on the ground in silent or vocal prayer.

In certain ways writing is a form of prayer.

The seeker's silence is the loudest form of prayer.