Quotes About Meditation

Habits of prayer need careful cultivation.

Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy.

Poetry and prayer are very similar.

Where there is no peace, prayers are not heard.

It is good for us to keep some account of our prayers, that we may not unsay them in our practice.

I've practiced centering prayer. I've contemplatively prayed. I've prayed liturgically... I've benefited from each, and I still do. In ways you'll see, elements of each style are still with me.

The candidate was required to prepare himself by confession, fasting, and passing the night in prayer.

Feel your prayers, feel your mantra and you will feel God.

Begin your day with prayer, and make it so soulful that it may remain with you until the evening.

True meditation has no direction or goal. It is pure wordless surrender, pure silent prayer.

Invoke often! Inflame thyself with prayer!

There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God

If your prayer is selfish, the answer will be something that will rebuke your selfishness. You may not recognize it as having come at all, but it is sure to be there.

All the troubles of life come upon us because we refuse to sit quietly for a while each day in our rooms.

The Secret of Praying is Praying in Secret. The secret place of prayer calls for every faculty of mind and heart.

Communicating our questions, hopes, and fears in prayer makes them-even to ourselves-more open and clear.

Prayer as focus is not a way of limiting what can be seen; it is a habit of attention brought to bear on all that is.

Poetry to me is prayer.

The stillness in art characterizes prayer, and the eye of the storm.

If we ask of the saints how they achieved spiritual effectiveness, they are only able to reply that, insofar as they did it themselves, they did it by love and prayer.

Remember that bodily exercise, when it is well ordered, as I have said, is also prayer by means of which you can please God our Lord.

Between the humble and contrite heart and the majesty of Heaven there are no barriers; the only password is prayer.

One can believe intellectually in the efficacy of prayer and never do any praying.

The mightier any is in the word, the more mighty he will be in prayer.