Quotes About Meditation

I am so busy now that if I did not spend three hours each day in prayer, I could not get through the day.

Change only takes place through action, not through meditation and prayer.

The Christian is not always praying; but within his bosom is a heaven-kindled love--fires of desire, fervent longings--which make him always ready to pray, and often engage him in prayer.

The life of prayer is so great and various there is something in it for everyone. It is like a garden which grows everything, from alpines to potatoes.

Look at Him while He is looking at you.

We know the utility of prayer from the efforts of the wicked spirits to distract us during the divine office; and we experience the fruit of prayer in the defeat of our enemies.

My greatest weapon is mute prayer.

Prayer is ecstatic communication with your innernavigational computer.

The silence of prayer is the silence of listening.

Prayer continues in the desire of the heart, though the understanding be employed on outward things.

Attentiveness is the natural prayer of the Soul.

Souls of prayer are souls of great silence

Never believe that true prayer consists in mere babbling, reciting so many psalms and vigils, saying your beads while you allow your thoughts to roam.

By my definition, prayer is consciously hanging out with God. Being with God in a deliberate way.

Centering prayer is a training in letting go.

Prayer is speaking to God. Meditation is listening to God. Trust tranquility.

Prayer gives us relief from the melancholy burden of self-absorption .

A prayer couched in the words of the soul, is far more powerful than any ritual.

Prayer unfolds in the stillness of the soul.

God sees us in secret, therefore, let, us seek his face in secret. Though heaven be God's palace, yet it is not his prison.

We should try our best to pour out all the burdens in our spirit by prayer until all of them have left us.

Living your life constructs your soul, not a few seconds of daily prayer.

Fundamentally, [prayer] is a position, a placement of oneself.

Prayer keeps me centered.