Quotes about Meditation
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
One can believe intellectually in the efficacy of prayer and never do any praying.
— Catherine Marshall
The life of prayer is so great and various there is something in it for everyone. It is like a garden which grows everything, from alpines to potatoes.
— Evelyn Underhill
Look at Him while He is looking at you.
— St. Therese of Lisieux
Prayer continues in the desire of the heart, though the understanding be employed on outward things.
— John Wesley
Souls of prayer are souls of great silence
— Mother Teresa