Quotes about Meditation
with all prayer (Eph. 6:18)" All sorts of prayer- public, private, mental, vocal. Do not be diligent in one kind of prayer and negligent in others... let us use all.
- John Wesley
The more deeply we grow into the psalms and the more often we pray them as our own, the more simple and rich will our prayer become.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The sky is my prayer, the birds are my prayer, the wind in the trees is my prayer, for God is all in all.
- Thomas Merton
When we become too glib in prayer we are most surely talking to ourselves.
- AW Tozer
I have so much to do that I spend several hours in prayer before I am able to do it.
- John Wesley
Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy.
- Laurence Sterne
It's not my business to try and make God think like me... but to try, in prayer and penitence, to think like God.
- AW Tozer
I've practiced centering prayer. I've contemplatively prayed. I've prayed liturgically... I've benefited from each, and I still do. In ways you'll see, elements of each style are still with me.
- Larry Crabb
Begin your day with prayer, and make it so soulful that it may remain with you until the evening.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Communicating our questions, hopes, and fears in prayer makes them-even to ourselves-more open and clear.
- Jimmy Carter
If we ask of the saints how they achieved spiritual effectiveness, they are only able to reply that, insofar as they did it themselves, they did it by love and prayer.
- Evelyn Underhill
Remember that bodily exercise, when it is well ordered, as I have said, is also prayer by means of which you can please God our Lord.
- Ignatius of Loyola