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Quotes About Meditation

He who prays as he ought will endeavor to live as he prays.
~ John Owen
The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching.
~ Joseph Smith Jr.
In the rush and noise of life, as you have intervals, step home within yourselves and be still. Wait upon God, and feel His good presence; this will carry you evenly through your day's business.
~ William Penn
The paintings are like prayers, relating to wishing for something beyond everyday life.
~ Susan Rothenberg
Puja (worship) is offering to God, prathana (prayer) is demanding from God. When we pray by offering all our karma and even ourselves to God, the prayer fruitifies.
~ Mahesh Babu
I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some sort of Buddhist. But the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer.
~ Henri Matisse
Go where your best prayers take you.
~ Frederick Buechner
Day by day, dear Lord, of thee three things I pray: to see thee more clearly, love thee more dearly, follow thee more nearly, day by day.
~ Richard of Chichester
No man - I don't care how colossal his intellect - No man is greater than his prayer life.
~ Leonard Ravenhill
No learning can make up for the failure to pray. No earnestness, no diligence, no study, no gifts will supply its lack.
~ Edward McKendree Bounds
I believe that there is no prayer without fasting, and there is no real fast without prayer.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The efficacy of a prayer depends not on the words but on the sincerity of intention.
~ Umar
I find a great deal of comfort and care in my faith and prayer. I'd sooner do without air than prayer.
~ Mary Karr
All that a Christian does, even in eating and sleeping, is prayer, when it is done in simplicity, according to the order of God, without either adding to or diminishing from it by his own choice.
~ John Wesley
Prayer is nothing else than a sense of God's presence
~ Brother Lawrence
Seek in reading and thou shalt find in meditation; knock in prayer and it shall be opened in contemplation.
~ John of the Cross
The airy sky has taken its place leaning against the wall. It is like a prayer to what is empty And what is empty turns its face to us and whispers: 'I am not empty, I am open'.
~ Tomas Transtromer
Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Real prayer is communion with God
~ Arthur W. Pink
The richness of God's Word ought to determine our prayer, not the poverty of our heart.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
If I could give you one line about writing worship songs, it would be 'Sing your prayers.'
~ Paul Baloche
This perpetual hurry of business and company ruins me in soul if not in body. More solitude and earlier hours!
~ William Wilberforce
I cannot neglect prayer for a single day.
~ Martin Luther
No prayer is complete without presence.
~ Rumi