Quotes About Meditation

An epigram a day keeps the mind from going astray.

Unless you can guide the mind inward, and take the attention beyond the comprehension of mind, and directly experience life, you never reach to the ultimate truth of life.

All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

He prays best who does not know that he is praying.

I live in the spirit of prayer. I pray as I walk about, when I lie down and when I rise up. And the answers are always coming.

There is a mighty lot of difference between saying prayers and praying.

A man prayed, and at first he thought that prayer was talking. But he became more and more quiet until in the end he realized prayer is listening.

We must pray without ceasing, in every occurrence and employment of our lives - that prayer which is rather a habit of lifting up the heart to God as in a constant communication with Him.

The truths that I know best I have learned on my knees. I never know a thing well, till it is burned into my heart by prayer.

Prayer is climbing up into the heart of God.

Let every step you take upon the earth be as a prayer.

Give yourself to prayer, to reading and meditation on divine truths: strive to penetrate to the bottom of them and never be content with a superficial knowledge.

For the faithful, Spirit-filled Christian, every place becomes a place of prayer.

Only a life of prayer and meditation will render a vessel ready for the Master's use.

When I wake up, I immediately pray. When I go to sleep, I pray. Honestly, a prayer every second, in every breath. I suggest the whole world to do it. Prayer is amazing.

Virtues are formed by prayer. Prayer preserves temperance. Prayer suppresses anger. Prayer prevents emotions of pride and envy. Prayer draws into the soul the Holy Spirit, and raises man to Heaven.

He who avoids prayer is avoiding everything that is good.

If we grow wiser and more learned in our intercourse with wise and learned persons, how much more will we gain in our inner life by communing with God in prayer.

While praying, listen to the words very carefully. When your heart is attentive, your entire being enters your prayer without your having to force it.

What wings are to a bird, and sails to a ship, so is prayer to the soul.

No day should be lived unless it was begun with a prayer of thankfulness and an intercession for guidance.

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