Quotes About Contemplation

I have morning prayers and a nighttime reflection. I also read the Bible daily.

Pray with your intelligence. Bring things to God that you have thought out and think them out again with Him. That is the secret of good judgment.

I still say the Lord's Prayer every day. It covers a lot of ground in our relation to the world.

Prayer draws us near to our own souls.

The Lord speaks to us through the Scriptures and in our prayer. Let us learn to keep silence before him, as we meditate upon the Gospel.

In centering prayer, the sacred word is not the object of the attention but rather the expression of the intention of the will.

A picture is like a prayer.

If we really want to achieve true prayer, we must turn our backs upon everything temporal, everything external, everything that is not divine.

Prayer is in all things, in all gestures.

It will never be altogether well with us till we convert the universe into a prayer room.

Music is a form of prayer.

Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.

Prayer is asking for guidance. Meditation is listening to it.

The Rosary is a school of Prayer. The Rosary is a school of Faith.

Mankind have such a deep stake in inward illumination, that there is much to be said by the hermit or monk in defence of his life of thought and prayer.

We are to be shut out from men, and shut in with God.

Prayer is - listening for the still small voice of God. Listening with the "ear of our hearts."

Meditation is a huge part of my life. And prayer.

The Rosary is my favorite prayer. A prayer so simple and so rich; from deepest heart, I exhort all to recite it.

He had been (Thinking? Praying?) It was all the same thing.

First prepare the ground, then prayer happens on its own accord. Prayer is something that you cannot do. Meditation is something that you can do because it has something to do with your mind.

Meditation is earnest prayer, and when prayer progresses, it becomes true meditation.

He is thinking quietly: I should not have got out of the habit of prayer.

when I am alone in the forest I always say my prayers; and that occasional solitary communion with God is surely the only true religion for intelligent beings.