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Quotes About Meditation

To pray is to let Jesus come into our hearts.
~ Ole Hallesby
I believe in prayer and in strong belief.
~ Tina Turner
If we rely on the Holy Spirit, we shall find that our prayers become more and more inarticulate; and when they are inarticulate, reverence grows deeper and deeper.
~ Oswald Chambers
Pray with your intelligence. Bring things to God that you have thought out and think them out again with Him. That is the secret of good judgment.
~ Charles Brent
I still say the Lord's Prayer every day. It covers a lot of ground in our relation to the world.
~ Rupert Sheldrake
The more we can give in our silent prayer, the more we can give in our active life.
~ Mother Teresa
All our blasphemies are only little prayers.
~ Antoni Lange
Worship and intercession must go together, the one is impossible without the other. Intercession means that we rouse ourselves up to get the mind of Christ about the one for whom we pray.
~ Oswald Chambers
The more you praise, the more vigor you will have for prayer; and the more you pray, the more matter you will have for praise.
~ J. I. Packer
If, at the time when the mind is praying it is distracted by any extraneous thought or worry about anything, then this prayer is not called pure.
~ Isaac of Nineveh
Prayer draws us near to our own souls.
~ Herman Melville
I have relied on prayer for health care all of my life.
~ Henry Paulson
A life of prayer is a life whose litanies are ever fresh acts of self-devoting love.
~ Frederick William Robertson
The Lord speaks to us through the Scriptures and in our prayer. Let us learn to keep silence before him, as we meditate upon the Gospel.
~ Pope Francis
If prayer stands as the place where God and human beings meet, then I must learn about prayer.
~ Philip Yancey
In centering prayer, the sacred word is not the object of the attention but rather the expression of the intention of the will.
~ Thomas Keating
A picture is like a prayer.
~ Harry Callahan
I used a lot of pancake makeup and a prayer, and a Buddhist chant.
~ Steven Cojocaru
If I could have one prayer answered, I would pray for patience. I move so fast sometimes. I try to slow down.
~ Debra Winger
When doing archana (daily prayers) as a group, one person should chant the mantra and the others should repeat it. Mantras should be chanted slowly, clearly and with devotion.
~ Mata Amritanandamayi
I'm afraid I did not pray hard enough last night.
~ Etty Hillesum
There is no music like a little river's . . . It takes the mind out-of-doors . . . and . . . it quiets a man down like saying his prayers.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
A poem is a hand, a hook, a prayer. It is a soul in action.
~ Edward Hirsch
If we really want to achieve true prayer, we must turn our backs upon everything temporal, everything external, everything that is not divine.
~ Johannes Tauler