Meditative Prayer Quotes

#1. Meditative prayer like that we experienced in the labyrinth resonates with hearts of emerging generations.

Dan Kimball

#2. If God doesn't want something for me, I shouldn't want it either. Spending time in meditative prayer, getting to know God, helps align my desires with God's.

Philip Yancey

#3. In meditative prayer, one thinks and speaks not only with the mind and lips, but in a certain sense with one's whole being ... All good meditative prayer is a conversation of our entire self to God.

Thomas Merton

#4. Meditative prayer does not do violence to our rational faculties. Neither does it confine us solely to the rational. We descend with the mind into the heart.

Richard J. Foster

#5. Kind of prayer we here speak of as properly "monastic" (though it may also fit into the life of any lay person who is attracted to it) is a prayer of silence, simplicity, contemplative and meditative unity, a deep personal integration in an attentive, watchful listening of "the heart.

Thomas Merton

#6. I am not to be underestimated. Overestimated, maybe, but underestimated? No.

Saumya Sharman

#7. When people you don't even know hate you, that's when you know you're the best.

Paris Hilton

#8. to come on hereafter, was what

Benjamin Franklin

#9. I never stopped making pictures. There were times when more of my income was coming from other sources, and I had to devote more time to television and movies and records.

Martin Mull

#10. Prayer for today:
Dear Lord, the eternal ecstatic joy within me is often turned into bondage by my labeling mind. Please, give me some meditative wisdom.

Saurabh Sharma

#11. The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I was the typical African woman, I'd done this privately, I wanted him to look at it, approve it and he said he wouldn't read it.

Buchi Emecheta

#12. The Irish are people who will never have leaders, for at the great moment they always desert them. They have produced one skeleton
Parnell
never a man.

James Joyce

#13. There are two means by which we may be led into the higher forms of prayer. One is Meditation, the other is Meditative Reading.

Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon

#14. Most redoubted lord and right sovereign cousin, may the Almighty Lord have you in his keeping.

Owen Glendower

#15. Jefferson repeatedly said that the best government was the smallest government, that governments are not the masters of the people, but the servants of the people governed.

Ronald Reagan

#16. Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.

Thomas Aquinas

#17. He was one of that great class of Englishmen who love their wives and trust them unquestioningly with their money and their honour, but are apt to hedge a little over their motor-cars.

Nevil Shute

#18. I feel that as long as you keep running towards your dreams and wish, they'll come true one day. Hard work will not betray ourselves

Minzy

#19. Put on the company hat.

Reginald H. Jones