Quotes about Meditation
Mental prayer is nothing else but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him.
- Teresa of Avila
Prayer is the passport to peace.
- Thomas Monson
It is possible to offer fervent prayer even while walking in public or strolling alone or seated in your shop ... while buying or selling ... or even while cooking.
- St. John Chrysostom
The goal of prayer is the ear of God.
- Charles Spurgeon
The neglect of prayer is a grand hindrance to holiness.
- John Wesley
The stillness of prayer is the most essential condition for fruitful action. Before all else, the disciple kneels down.
- Gianna Beretta Molla
Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
If man is man and God is God, to live without prayer is not merely an awful thing: it is an infinitely foolish thing.
- Phillips Brooks
He who prays as he ought will endeavor to live as he prays.
- John Owen
I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some sort of Buddhist. But the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer.
- Henri Matisse
No man - I don't care how colossal his intellect - No man is greater than his prayer life.
- Leonard Ravenhill
I believe that there is no prayer without fasting, and there is no real fast without prayer.
- Mahatma Gandhi