Quotes about Meditation
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
Prayer is nothing else than a sense of God's presence
— Brother Lawrence
Seek in reading and thou shalt find in meditation; knock in prayer and it shall be opened in contemplation.
— John of the Cross
Prayer does not change God; it changes me.
— CS Lewis
Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Real prayer is communion with God.
— AW Pink