Quotes About Meditation

True prayer is the trading of the heart with God.

Most people find it extremely difficult - if not impossible - to focus in prayer.

Say your prayers. And I'll say mine. Because I really think it helps.

The purpose of prayer is not to influence God to grant you special favors, but rather to remind yourself that you are always connected to God.

Sometimes I'm asked to list the most important steps in preparing for an evangelistic mission, and my reply is always the same: prayer... prayer... prayer.

I am in prayer. I am one hand, this Universe the other.

A fly rod extends a fly fisher's being as surely as do imagination, empathy or prayer.

No duty is more earnestly impressed upon us in Scripture than the duty of continual communion with Him.

God likes to listen favorably to the prayers of His faithful, particularly when they look at Christ's body

If you have never felt your soul poured out before the Lord with a consequent exhaustion, it is doubtful whether you have advanced far in the school of prayer.

For a successful season of prayer, the best beginning is confession.

Ten minutes spent in the presence of Christ every day, aye, two minutes, will make the whole day different.

The journey of prayer is nothing more or less than a gradual awakening to the reality of recognizing what is already there.

I think the Lord's Prayer is a very powerful prayer. And the prayer of St. Francis.

Jesus himself talked about prayer and meditation. Anything that brings you closer to the Lord, what's wrong with that?

There is a way of beholding nature which is a form of prayer, a way of minding something with such clarity and aliveness that the rest of the world recedes. It . . . gives the brain a small vacation.

We find, sooner or later, that in prayer we either abandon ourselves or we abandon prayer.

True prayer is neither a mere mental exercise nor a vocal performance. It is a spiritual commerce with the Creator of heaven and earth.

We can learn more in an hour praying, when praying indeed, than from many hours of rigorous study.

It is true that Bible prayers in word and print are short, but the praying men of the Bible were with God through many a sweet and holy wrestling hour. They won by few words but long waiting.

Prayer thrives in the atmosphere of true devotion.

Praise, more divine than prayer; prayer points our ready path to heaven; praise is already there.

Prayer ardent opens heaven.

Unless inside, where no one sees, our soul is kneelling, too, a prayer is not so likely to get through.