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Quotes About Meditation

I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness.
~ Marianne Williamson
The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of his oar, are true prayers heard throughout nature.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mental prayer is nothing else but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him.
~ Teresa of Avila
Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
An hour of study, for the modern apostle, is an hour of prayer.
~ Josemaria Escriva
Prayer is the laying aside of thoughts.
~ Evagrius Ponticus
It is possible to offer fervent prayer even while walking in public or strolling alone or seated in your shop ... while buying or selling ... or even while cooking.
~ Saint John Chrysostom
All great art is a visual form of prayer.
~ Wendy Beckett
The goal of prayer is the ear of God.
~ Charles Spurgeon
The word of God is the food by which prayer is nourished and made strong.
~ Edward McKendree Bounds
Prayer does not fit us for the greater work; prayer is the greater work.
~ Oswald Chambers
A holy life does not live in the closet, but it cannot live without the closet.
~ Edward McKendree Bounds
I am standing on my own altar; The poses are my prayers.
~ B.K.S. Iyengar
If you are strangers to prayer you are strangers to power.
~ Billy Sunday
The best weapons of a Jew are his prayers.
~ Nachman of Breslov
The neglect of prayer is a grand hindrance to holiness.
~ John Wesley
I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite.
~ Carol Ann Duffy
The stillness of prayer is the most essential condition for fruitful action. Before all else, the disciple kneels down.
~ Gianna Beretta Molla
The definition of prayer is paying careful and concentrated attention to something other than your own constructions.
~ W. H. Auden
Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
To pray is no small thing. It is nothing less than a sacred pilgrimage into the heart of the whole world.
~ Wayne Muller
When you sing, you pray twice.
~ Johnny Cash
Prayer is a shield to the soul
~ John Bunyan
If man is man and God is God, to live without prayer is not merely an awful thing: it is an infinitely foolish thing.
~ Phillips Brooks