Quotes About Contemplation

Prayer is the evidence that I am spiritually concentrated on God.

Prayer unfolds in the stillness of the soul.

Living your life constructs your soul, not a few seconds of daily prayer.

Fundamentally, [prayer] is a position, a placement of oneself.

The picture is like a prayer, an offering, and hopefully an opening through which to seek what we don't know, or already know and should take seriously.

Saying one's prayers isn't exactly the same thing as praying.

I am in the House of Mercy, and my heart is a place of prayer.

I prefer a kind of sweet, deep, rich prayer in which a person goes in and says, Take me down deep into the reason you gave me life. Take me down deep. It silences the chaos in me.

Just as you wouldn't leave the house without taking a shower, you shouldn't start the day without at least 10 minutes of sacred practice: prayer, meditation, inspirational reading.

In vocal prayer we speak to God; in mental prayer he speaks to us. It is then that God pours Himself into us.

If your life is rushing in many directions at once, you are incapable of the kind of deep, unhurried prayer that is vital to the Christian walk.

Lead us in a few words of silent prayer.

A day without morning and evening prayers and personal intercessions is actually a day without meaning or importance.

perhaps there's no sharper spur to meditation than answered prayer.

Everything we do, our entire interior monologue, is prayer.

I believe that ultimately it all comes down to whether we seek conscious contact with God on a daily basis through prayer and meditation.

May our prayers today, and every day, be from our hearts and with the focus of our whole being.

Memory, so complete and clear or so evasive, has to be ended, has to be put aside, as if one were leaving a chapel and bringing the prayer to an end in one's head.

Every single emotion you have should be processed in prayer.

Abiding fully means praying much.

Oh, will you pray? Stop now and pray, lest desire turn to feeling and feeling evaporate.

I don't know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention.

Prayer is more than words. It's listening, seeing and feeling.

For me writing has always felt like praying even when I wasn't writing prayers.