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Quotes About Meditation

Through prayer we speak to God. In meditation, God speaks to us.
~ Edgar Cayce
Prayer is where the action is.
~ John Wesley
Prayer that is born of meditation upon the Word of God is the prayer that soars upward most easily to God's listening ears.
~ R. A. Torrey
My longing for truth was a single prayer.
~ Edith Stein
Often a healing takes place in ourselves as we pray for the healing of others.
~ Michael E. DeBakey
Those who pray from the heart do not think about the prayer they are saying, but about the God to whom they pray.
~ Saint Francis de Sales
At the heart of silence is prayer. At the heart of prayer is faith. At the heart of faith is life. At the heart of life is service.
~ Mother Teresa
In prayer, more is accomplished by listening than by talking.
~ Jane Frances de Chantal
There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is. ~William Shakespeare
~ William Shakespeare
Anything is a blessing which makes us pray.
~ Charles Spurgeon
We should seek not so much to pray but to become prayer.
~ Francis of Assisi
There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful, than that of a continual conversation with God; those only can comprehend it who practice and experience it.
~ Brother Lawrence
No time is so well spent in every day as that which we spend upon our knees.
~ J. C. Ryle
A man may study because his brain is hungry for knowledge, even Bible knowledge. But he prays because his soul is hungry for God.
~ Leonard Ravenhill
Be constantly committed to prayer or to reading [Scripture]; by praying, you speak to God, in reading, God speaks to you.
~ Cyprian
Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.
~ Anne Lamott
The great method of prayer is to have none. If in going to prayer one can form in oneself a pure capacity for receiving the spirit of God, that will suffice for all method.
~ Jane Frances de Chantal
Gratitude is the greatest prayer. Thank you is the greatest mantra.
~ Swami Nithyananda
The root of prayer is interior silence.
~ Thomas Keating
Start today by practicing constant conversation with God and continual mediation on his Word. Prayer lets you speak to God; mediation lets God speak to you.
~ Rick Warren
No matter what I preach or what we claim to believe in our heads, the future will depend upon our times of prayer.
~ Jim Cymbala
To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.
~ Victor Hugo
Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.
~ Adam Clarke
The making of art is no different than prayer.
~ Rainn Wilson