Quotes About Mind

Persistence with patience and prayer pays with profits, prosperity and peace of mind.

You will never enjoy the sweetness of a quiet prayer unless you shut your mind to all worldly desires and temporal affairs.

The purpose of prayer is not to change God's mind, which always knows your wholeness and your deservingness. The purpose of prayer is to change your mind so you can see through the eyes of God.

Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient's belief.

The Secret of Praying is Praying in Secret. The secret place of prayer calls for every faculty of mind and heart.

But from the good health of the mind comes that which is dear to all and the object of prayer-happiness.

Prayer is a thought, a belief, a feeling, arising within the mind of the one praying.

We ought not speak too long about God with our minds before we turn and speak to God from our heart. We must stir a lot of prayer into the stew of our theology.

Prayer is more than thoughts and feelings expressed in words. It is the opening of mind and heart - our whole being to God our Abba Father. It is Divine Union.

Blessed is the mind which, during prayer, is insensible to all things.

But that from us aught should ascend to Heav'n So prevalent as to concern the mind Of God, high-bless'd, or to incline His will, Hard to belief may seem; yet this will prayer.

God does not reveal information by communication: He reveals Himself by communion. Revelation is a personal meeting of God with man. It is a meeting of mind with mind or person with person.

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.

The purpose of prayer is the alignment of the mind with the thoughts and the will of God.

Surely our clergy need not be surprised at the daily increasing distrust in the public mind of the efficacy of prayer.

To imagine that God wants prayers and hymns of praise is to make him out to a sort of oriental potentate; while praying for favours is an attempt to get him to change his allegedly all-wise mind.

The exercise of prayer in those who habitually exert it must be regarded by us doctors as the most adequate and normal of all the pacifiers of the mind and calmers of the nerves.

The first petition that we are to make to Almighty God is for a good conscience the next for health of mind and then of body.

Prayer is a rising up and a drawing near to God in mind and in heart and in spirit.

Prayer is a condition of mind an attitude of heart which God recognizes as prayer whether it manifests itself in quiet thinking in sighing or in audible words.

The most important relationship is the mind's relationship with itself. In other words, the ultimate - and, really, the only - relationship you have is the relationship with your own thoughts.

You are the Master, the mind is your servant. That is the correct relationship.

Your most intimate relationship is the one you have with your thoughts.

If spacious stillness is missing, the relationship will be dominated by the mind and can easily be taken over by problems and conflict. If stillness is there, it can contain anything.