Top 1200 Contemplative Prayer Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Were in prayer, as indeed you ought to be.

The root of prayer is interior silence.

Whole prayer is nothing but love.

Prayer is - keeping company with God.

The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.

Poetry and prayer are very similar.

Love and prayer are intimately related.

Prayer is futility when compared to belief.

Pondering is, in my feeling, a form of prayer.

Prayer turns theology into experience.

Prayer succeeds when all else fails

Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity.

Make sickness itself a prayer.

Setting a field for synchronicity is a matter of putting yourself in a particular state of mind. It is easy to think about synchronicity intellectually, but unless you enter the state of mind where your prayer-field will help, all you will do is glimpse the coincidences every once in a while. In some situations that is enough and you will be led forward for a time, but eventually you will lose your direction. The only way to establish a constant flow of synchronicity is to stay in a state where your prayer field keeps this flow moving toward you--a state of conscious alertness.

Prayer is the greatest use of my words.

Praying solves the problems of prayer.

'Help' is a prayer that is always answered.

Prayer is the chief exercise of faith.

Music is the child of prayer, the companion of religion.

Prayer is continual abandonment to God.

Consistent prayer is the desire to do right.

Let every step you take upon the earth be as a prayer.

The #1 key to spiritual warfare is prayer.

Prayer is faith passing into action.

Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.

You cannot petition the lord with prayer!

No prayer is complete without presence.

There cannot be an answer until there is a prayer.

Prayer is the answer to every problem there is.

The first purpose of prayer is to know God.

Short prayer pierceth heaven.

Prayer's a very tricky business.

Prayer is the acid test of devotion.

Life is fragile, handle with prayer.

If faith fails, prayer perishes.

Time spent in prayer is never wasted.

God knows, we don't want prayer.

Writing is my form of celebration and prayer.

Finding God in all things is not an 'empirical eureka.' When we desire to encounter God, we would like to verify him immediately by an empirical method. But you cannot meet God this way...A contemplative attitude is necessary: it is the feeling that you are moving along the good path of understanding and affection toward things and situations. Profound peace, spiritual consolation, love of God, and love of all things in God-this is the sign that you are on this right path.

Prayer is a declaration of dependence upon God.

I finally knew... why Christ's prayer in the garden could not be granted. He had been seeded and birthed into human flesh. He was one of us. Once He had become mortal, He could not become immortal except by dying. That He prayed the prayer at all showed how human He was. That He knew it could not be granted showed his divinity; that He prayed it anyhow showed His mortality, His mortal love of life that His death made immortal.

Now I am past all comforts here, but prayer.

The most fervent prayer meetings are in hell.

Worrying is one of my few forms of prayer.

God shapes the world by prayer.

True prayer is a lonely business.

Fear drives the wretched to prayer

Love is the only prayer I know.

You will learn that at higher levels of energy, our fields of prayer act very quickly to bring us exactly what we expect. If we fear, it brings to us what we fear. If we hate, it brings us more of what we hate. Thankfully when we go into these negative expectations, our prayer-fields collapse rather quickly because we lose our connection with the divine and are no longer outflowing love. But a fear expectation can still be powerful. That is why you must monitor your expectations carefully and set your field consciously.

meditation vs prayer = listening vs talking

Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet.

Prayer is the best response to hatred.

True prayer is not a prelude to inaction.

Prayer is not optional for the Christian; it is required.

There's something arbitrary about taking a picture. So I can stand at the edge of a highway and take one step forward and it can be a natural landscape untouched by man and I can take one step back and include a guardrail and change the meaning of the picture radically... I can take a picture of a person at one moment and make them look contemplative and photograph them two seconds later and make them look frivolous.

The key to prayer is simply praying.

Prayer is a concentration of positive thoughts.

... if a man prays God for some virtue, and at the same time gives himself up to negligence, acquiring no definite means to gain this virtue, and making no effort towards it, truly this man tempts God, rather than prays. Thus the divine James says: 'The effectual prayer of a righteous man avails much' (Jms. 5:16). What avails to make prayer effective? is when, besides begging a saint to pray for him about something, the man also prays about it himself and with all diligence does everything necessary for obtaining his request.

The Psalter is the great school of prayer.

Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God