Quotes about Meditation
God speaks in the silence of the heart. Listening is the beginning of prayer.
- Mother Teresa
He who interrupts the course of his spiritual exercises and prayer is like a man who allows a bird to escape from his hand; he can hardly catch it again.
- John of the Cross
The Christian on his knees sees more than the philosopher on tiptoe. God sends no one away empty except those who are full of themselves.
- DL Moody
I do not know much about God and prayer, but I have come to believe over the last twenty-five years, that there's something to be said about keeping prayer simple. Help, Thanks, Wow.
- Anne Lamott
Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.
- Teresa of Avila
A man who prays much in private will make short prayers in public.
- DL Moody
Fasting detaches you from this world. Prayer reattaches you to the next world.
- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Whether or not our prayer is heard depends not on the number of our words, but on the fervor of our souls.
- St. John Chrysostom
By turning your eyes on God in meditation, your whole soul will be filled with God. Begin all your prayers in the presence of God.
- Francis de Sales
I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness.
- Marianne Williamson
...Prayer is not always petition, sometimes it is just communion. It is the exquisite ministry of friendship.
- John Henry Jowett
The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of his oar, are true prayers heard throughout nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson