Quotes About Meditation

The value of consistent prayer is not that He will hear us, but that we will hear Him.

Keep on praying for faith, it is through prayer that you develop all your wonderful qualities of soul.

Prayer is continual abandonment to God.

I'm not very good at praying, but what I experience when I'm writing a poem is close to prayer.

Prayer is the Word of God which comes to you when you are silent enough, still enough, expectant enough to receive it.

I never get out of bed in the morning without having communion with God in the Spirit.

The secret of praying is praying in secret.

The entire day receives order and discipline when it acquires unity. This unity must be sought and found in morning prayer. The morning prayer determines the day.

Reading the morning newspaper is the realist's morning prayer.

The trouble with nearly everybody who prays is that he says 'Amen' and runs away before God has a chance to reply. Listening to God is far more important than giving Him our ideas.

If you have ever prayed in the dawn you will ask yourself why you were so foolish as not to do it always: it is difficult to get into communion with God in the midst of the hurly-burly of the day.

In contemplative prayer we seek to become the person we are called to be, not by thinking of God, but by being with God. Simply to be with God is to be drawn into being the person God calls us to be

We talk to God--that is prayer; God talks to us--that is inspiration.

Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.

Nothing you can do will benefit you more than prayer.

Perhaps one of the greatest rewards of meditation and prayer is the sense of belonging that comes to us.

Prayer purifies us, reading instructs us. Both are good when both are possible. Otherwise, prayer is better than reading.

She entered a state where prayer and poetry became one and the everyday world seemed full of holiness and significance.

Prayer is the chief exercise of faith.

When the fire of prayer goes out, the barrenness of busyness takes over.

He who prays most receives most.

A dynamic praying church must be built from the inside out, employing all four levels of prayer: the secret closet, the family altar, small group praying and finally, the congregational setting.

If you're praying, you're not worrying, and if you're worrying, you're not praying!

Prayer is the oxygen of the soul.