Quotes About Contemplation

In vocal prayer we go to God on foot. In meditation we go to God on horseback. In contemplation we go to God in a jet.

Hurry is the death of Prayer.

Our Lord is the ground from whom our prayer grows and in his love and grace he himself gives us our prayers.

Attentiveness is the heart of prayer.

Waiting prayer, or waiting on the Lord, is the silent surrendering of the soul to God. It is wordless worship. It is seeking God not from without but from within. It is to seek God in your heart.

We must be still before God.

Much more is accomplished by a single word of the Our Father said, now and then, from our heart, than by the whole prayer repeated many times in haste and without attention.

Poetry and prayer are very similar.

I've practiced centering prayer. I've contemplatively prayed. I've prayed liturgically... I've benefited from each, and I still do. In ways you'll see, elements of each style are still with me.

Prayer is the act of seeing reality from God's point of view.

Feel your prayers, feel your mantra and you will feel God.

Begin your day with prayer, and make it so soulful that it may remain with you until the evening.

True meditation has no direction or goal. It is pure wordless surrender, pure silent prayer.

All the troubles of life come upon us because we refuse to sit quietly for a while each day in our rooms.

Prayer as focus is not a way of limiting what can be seen; it is a habit of attention brought to bear on all that is.

Poetry to me is prayer.

Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.

I must exchange whispers with God before shouts with the world.

Look at Him while He is looking at you.

As the day comes to a close and we review what we have tried to do, again there should be that sense of committing everything to God.

The silence of prayer is the silence of listening.

Prayer continues in the desire of the heart, though the understanding be employed on outward things.

Souls of prayer are souls of great silence

By my definition, prayer is consciously hanging out with God. Being with God in a deliberate way.