Quotes About Meditation

Memory, so complete and clear or so evasive, has to be ended, has to be put aside, as if one were leaving a chapel and bringing the prayer to an end in one's head.

The purpose of daily prayer is the cultivation of a sense of the sacred. Sacred energy renews us.

When we pray, we don't change the world, we change ourselves.

Every single emotion you have should be processed in prayer.

Let us pray, and as we pray, let us make room for Jesus in our hearts.

When prayers are done, my Lady is ready.

Nymph, in thy orisons be all my sins remembered!

Abiding fully means praying much.

Oh, will you pray? Stop now and pray, lest desire turn to feeling and feeling evaporate.

I sit beside my lonely fire and pray for wisdom yet: for calmness to remember or courage to forget.

They who have steeped their soul in prayer can every anguish calmly bear.

I don't know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention.

They tell me, Lord, that when I seem To be in speech with you. Since but one voice is heard, it

Prayer is more than words. It's listening, seeing and feeling.

The key to prayer is simply praying.

For me writing has always felt like praying even when I wasn't writing prayers.

We ought not speak too long about God with our minds before we turn and speak to God from our heart. We must stir a lot of prayer into the stew of our theology.

To pray well one must pray much.

Fasting and prayer are common injunctions in my religion.

We must resist wandering thoughts in prayer. Raising our hands reminds us that we need to raise up our minds to God, setting aside all irrelevant thoughts.

I do believe in the power of prayer.

Blessed is the mind which, during prayer, is insensible to all things.

I have morning prayers and a nighttime reflection. I also read the Bible daily.

This mystical stream [contemplative prayer] is the Western bridge to Far Eastern spirituality.