Top 100 Prayer Meditation Quotes
#1. I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness.
Marianne Williamson
#2. Human mobile devices that may come in handy and can be used anywhere include: prayer, meditation, a good attitude, compassion, kindness, humor, laughter, patience, love and a smile. Customize to personal style and taste.
Jody Watley
#3. Prayer, meditation, and confession actually have the power to rewire the brain in a way that can make us less self-referential and more aware of how God sees us. But these impediments to sin may not come easily.
John Ortberg
#5. Each of us is born with an internal navigational system. The thinking of the world has a way of switching the system off, but we can always turn it on again through prayer, meditation and forgiveness. Doing this puts us back on track in our lives, making us wise, convicted and powerful.
Marianne Williamson
#6. The words of human love have been used by the saints to describe their vision of God, and so I suppose we might use the terms of prayer, meditation, contemplation to explain the intensity of the love we feel for a woman ...
Graham Greene
#7. DIG Deep = "get deliberate, inspired, & going"
Deliberate in their thoughts and behaviors through prayer, meditation, or simply by setting intentions;
Inspired to make new and different choices;
Going. They take action.
Brene Brown
#8. That beast inside you, the one you think is tethered tightly to the post, the one you've tamed with art, love, prayer, meditation: it's barely muzzled. The knot is weak. The post is brittle. All it takes is two words and a siren to cut it loose.
Adrian J. Walker
#9. Just as you wouldn't leave the house without taking a shower, you shouldn't start the day without at least 10 minutes of sacred practice: prayer, meditation, inspirational reading.
Marianne Williamson
#10. Wait on the LORD; be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD" (Psalm 27:14). God promises to strengthen your heart as you learn to wait upon Him through prayer, meditation, and worship. "O
Lloyd Hildebrand
#11. I begin and end each day with prayer, meditation, and thoughts about what I am grateful for.
Nathan East
#12. If you ask Zen people they will say; tea is not something that you pour with unawareness and drink like any other drink. It is not a drink, it is meditation; it is prayer. So they listen to the kettle creating a melody, and in that listening they become more silent, more alert.
Rajneesh
#13. How can we turn our knowledge about God into knowledge of God? The rule for doing this is simple but demanding. It is that we turn each Truth that we learn about God into matter for meditation before God, leading to prayer and praise to God.
J.I. Packer
#14. So it is that a new politics centers around the arousal of that power, using prayer and meditation to create a force field of transformation.
Marianne Williamson
#15. It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by our own thoughts.
Teresa Of Avila
#16. Meditating on the nature and dignity of prayer can cause saying at least one thing to God: Lord, teach us to pray!
Karl Rahner
#17. Many questing young people and stressed older people nowadays seek relaxation through meditation. They look for it in Hindu, Buddhist and other Eastern religions. They are often surprised to learn that there is such a way within the Christian tradition, a way that is known as contemplation.
Ray Simpson
#19. Prayer lets you speak to God; meditation lets God speak to you. Both are essential to becoming a friend of God.
Rick Warren
#20. To learn to concentrate we must choose a prayer or meditation and follow this path with commitment and steadiness, a willingness to work with our practice day after day, no matter what arises.
Jack Kornfield
#21. I do get up in the morning and I try to spend at least half an hour meditating and reading something spiritual. I start my day with meditation and prayer, and I truly believe that all the stuff you do on the outside isn't as important as what you do on the inside.
Alana Stewart
#22. Lucky people seem to create an alternative support system - faith, prayer, hobbies, meditation, friends - to tide over their bad phases and are thus able to use such periods to the best of their abilities.
Ashwin Sanghi
#23. After you have made a decision that is pleasing to God, the Devil may try to make you have second thoughts. Intensify your prayer time, meditation, and good deeds. For if Satan's temptations merely cause you to increase your efforts to grow in holiness, he'll have an incentive to leave you alone.
Ignatius Of Loyola
#24. Prayer is you speaking to God. Meditation is allowing the spirit to speak to you.
Deepak Chopra
#25. Some people hear the voice of God in their dreams or through prayer or meditation. For me, God is truly in the details - the details found in the connections between the living things on the planet all working together to maintain the atmosphere and the soil.
Timothy Goodwin
#26. Meditation puts the telescope to the eye, and enables us to see Jesus after a better sort than we could have seen Him if we had lived in the days of His flesh.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#27. What if deep down inside you...you knew you were more amazing and magnificent than you thought you were?
Roger James McDonald
#28. I need the spiritual revival that comes from spending quiet time alone with Jesus in prayer and in thoughtful meditation on His Word.
Anne Graham Lotz
#29. Prayer and meditation are my inner secret and my outer secret. My muscles are next to nothing compared to the muscles of the professional bodybuilders and weightlifters. It is because of the strength of my prayer-life and meditation-life that I am able to accomplish these feats of strength.
Sri Chinmoy
#30. Meditation is the most significant because it opens the door for all other significant things: love, prayer, God, light, music, poetry.
Rajneesh
#31. The essence of meditation is a period of time set aside to contemplate the Lord, listen to Him, and allow Him to permeate our spirits.
Charles Stanley
#33. Nothing so readily renews the decrepit soul, and enables it to approach the Lord, as fear of God, attentiveness, constant meditation on the words of Scripture, the arming of oneself with prayer, and spiritual progress through the keeping of vigils.
Brock Bingaman
#34. Perfect prayer does not consist in many words, silent remembering and pure intention raises the heart to that supreme Power.
Amit Ray
#35. How would you like a friend or loved one talking to you only when they needed something? That's kind of how most of use prayer or meditation. Since there is ALWAYS something for which to be grateful, how about praying or meditating on that?
Charles F. Glassman
#36. In our prayer and meditation we hope for fulfilling ordinary life.
Thomas Moore
#37. Meditation and prayer are my secret weapons, and when I use them, I can move mountains.
Syesha Mercado
#38. If you have no time for prayer and meditation, you will have lots of time for sickness and trouble.
Emmet Fox
#39. No amount of prayer or meditation can do what helping others can do.
Meher Baba
#40. Sometimes, it's important to turn off the noise from the outside world. Sometimes, it's critical to stop the banter even within oneself. Intentional solitude and quiet can make us strong for tomorrow.
David Paul Kirkpatrick
#41. Masturbation and meditation both promote physical and mental wellbeing.
Abhijit Naskar
#43. Jesus himself talked about prayer and meditation. Anything that brings you closer to the Lord, what's wrong with that?
Dennis Quaid
#44. The Psalms are the prayer book of the Bible, but it is noteworthy that the first Psalm is not a prayer per se but a meditation - in
Timothy J. Keller
#45. To foster inner awareness, introspection, and reasoning is more efficient than meditation and prayer.
Dalai Lama
#46. Meditation goes in. Prayer goes out. But they both aim for the same place of union between you and the devine.
Lisa Jones
#47. The guy that helped me learn this stuff suggested prayer and meditation. So I took up smoking.
Larry Correia
#48. When doing archana (daily prayers) as a group, one person should chant the mantra and the others should repeat it. Mantras should be chanted slowly, clearly and with devotion.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#49. But prayer and meditation aren't only in the realm of religion. I'd say neither is God, for that matter, brother Matt. What it's about is finding a peaceful center, even when we think that life is totally whack!
Daniel D. Maurer
#50. Reading is a form of prayer, a guided meditation that briefly makes us believe we're someone else, disrupting the delusion that we're permanent and at the center of the universe. Suddenly (we're saved!) other people are real again, and we're fond of them.
George Saunders
#51. If you can spend moments in meditation or prayer, you have the tool to hear your body talk to you. It's
Otakara Klettke
#52. For a prayer oriented religion the concept of a personal God is needed - to relate to. For meditation-oriented religions God is a useless hypothesis; it can be discarded easily into the dustbin. It is not needed.
Rajneesh
#53. Work for god, love god alone, and be wise with god. When an ordinary man puts the necessary rime and enthusiasm into meditation and prayer, he becomes a divine man.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#54. Some women will spend thirty minutes to an hour preparing for church externally (putting on special clothes and makeup, etc.). What would happen if we all spent the same amount of time preparing internally for church - with prayer and meditation?
Leonard Ravenhill
#55. Another of the things I started to do during this time was what Buddhists normally call "meditation" or, in Christian terms, "contemplative prayer". It began to supersede deipnosophy as my favorite hobby.
Sara Maitland
#56. The easiest way to get touch with this universal power is through silent Prayer. Shut your eyes, shut your mouth, and open your heart. This is the golden rule of prayer. Prayer should be soundless words coming forth from the centre of your heart filled with love.
Amit Ray
#57. Help me, Lord, to remember that religion is not to be confined to the church ... nor exercised only in prayer and meditation, but that every where I am in Thy Presence
Susanna Wesley
#58. Every heart has a divine intelligence and natural guidance system. With every prayer, every meditation and every thought of love, we tune in to ours.
Marianne Williamson
#59. Every word you speak is a prayer, or meditation of reinforcement which creates permanence.
Bryant McGill
#60. [M]editation is the life of of most other duties; and the view of heaven is the life of meditation (559).
Richard Baxter
#61. He (Lincoln) was accustomed to hearing words, many of them boring, but he was not accustomed to group silence.
Elton Trueblood
#62. Life here on Earth is promised suffering and one needs to find ways to live through it. Many people turn to meditation and prayer - anything that can connect us deeper into ourselves and with the divine.
Kat Lahr
#63. The truly Christian imagination never lets Jesus Christ out of her sight.
Richard J. Foster
#64. I have been challenged by the concept of meditation ... I decided recently to accept the invitation of a friend to experience the sheer silence of meditation-undirected prayer ... I had before only sensed intellectually ... But by going deep into prayer I could almost feel it.
Laurie Beth Jones
#65. First prepare the ground, then prayer happens on its own accord. Prayer is something that you cannot do. Meditation is something that you can do because it has something to do with your mind.
Rajneesh
#66. Prayer is the wing wherewith the soul flies to heaven, and meditation the eye wherewith we see God.
Ambrose
#67. prayer is you talking to God and meditation is you sitting back quietly to listen for His response. So
Monica Marie Jones
#68. I was just a kid when I started doing this,yoga, meditation, natural foods, acupuncture - things like were seen as practically voodoo. And today you can go into any hospital and they'll have massage, and Chinese medicine, and therapy, and a prayer room.
Elizabeth Lesser
#69. After deep prayer and meditation the devotee is in touch with his divine consciousness; there is no greater power than that inward protection.
- Paramhansa Yogananda
Paramahansa Yogananda
#70. Life is like that short visit on the road. Prayer is for those who wish to talk to God. Meditation is for those who only want to listen to him.
Christopher Pike
#71. Prayer is asking for guidance. Meditation is listening to it.
Sonia Choquette
#72. Only a life of prayer and meditation will render a vessel ready for the Master's use.
George Muller
#73. For Christians, as for all people of faith, reflection, meditation and prayer help us to renew ourselves in God's love, as we strive daily to become better people. The Christmas message shows us that this love is for everyone. There is no one beyond its reach.
Queen Elizabeth II
#74. Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.
Dean Koontz
#75. Prayer and temptation, the Bible and meditation, make a true minister of the gospel.
J.C. Ryle
#76. Give yourself to prayer, to reading and meditation on divine truths: strive to penetrate to the bottom of them and never be content with a superficial knowledge.
David Brainerd
#77. True meditation has no direction or goal. It is pure wordless surrender, pure silent prayer.
Adyashanti
#78. The mark of the Christian is the willingness to look for the Divine in the flesh of a babe in a crib, the continuing Christ under the appearance of bread on an altar, and a meditation and a prayer on a string of beads
Fulton J. Sheen
#79. The most important habit is solitude, quiet time. People who enter their day by taking 45 minutes or an hour for themselves - meditation, prayer, inspirational reading, taking a walk - before they go for it in the real world do best.
Ken Blanchard
#81. If you've ever tried meditation and didn't stay with it, I recommend you try it again. Some time has passed. In the interim, you may have developed the discipline of mind or the patience you were short on before. Let these qualities aid your practice. (173)
Victoria Moran
#82. Rather than walk about holy places we can thus pause in our thoughts, examine our heart, and visit the wheel promised land.
Martin Luther
#83. The only trouble is that in the spiritual life there are no tricks and no shortcuts. Those who imagine that they can discover spiritual gimmicks and put them to work for themselves usually ignore God's will and his grace.
Thomas Merton
#84. In order to succeed in it (prayer), it should be done when we first awaken, when our whole being is calm and recollected. We need to make our meditation before anything else.
Peter Julian Eymard
#85. Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.
Madame De Stael
#86. 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
#87. Seek in reading and thou shalt find in meditation; knock in prayer and it shall be opened in contemplation.
John Of The Cross
#88. Let us live in peace and harmony to keep the land and all life in balance. Only prayer and meditation can do that.
Thomas Banyacya
#89. Some Of The Greatest Rewards of Prayer And Meditation Is The Sense Of Feeling Loved And Of Being Blessed Enough To Know The Dire Need For Finding PEACE In Your Life.
Timothy Pina
#90. Perhaps one of the greatest rewards of meditation and prayer is the sense of belonging that comes to us.
Bill W.
#91. Our most emotionally active life is lived in our dreams, and our cells renew themselves most industriously in sleep. We reach highest in meditation, and farthest in prayer. In stillness every human being is great; he is free from the experience of hostility; he is a poet, and most like an angel.
Leonard Bernstein
#92. Prayer that is born of meditation upon the Word of God is the prayer that soars upward most easily to God's listening ears.
R.A. Torrey
#93. When you cease from labour, fill up your time in reading, meditation, and prayer: and while your hands are labouring, let your heart be employed, as much as possible, in divine thoughts.
David Brainerd
#94. In vocal prayer we go to God on foot. In meditation we go to God on horseback. In contemplation we go to God in a jet.
Fulton J. Sheen
#95. Hence monastic prayer, especially meditation and contemplative prayer, is not so much a way to find God as a way of resting in him whom we have found, who loves us, who is near to us, who comes to us to draw us to himself.
Thomas Merton
#96. Meditation is a sort of prayer and prayer is meditation. The highest meditation is to think of nothing. If you can remain one moment without thought, great power will come.
Swami Vivekananda
#97. It's a sweet thing to sit quietly in the early-morning darkness and talk to God for a while. It's amazing what you gain from the conversation.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#98. Patience is the path to opportunities. We gain patience through prayer and meditation. Within that vein, we never consider ourselves having failed.
Ellen J. Barrier
#99. One of the greatest gifts to give our friends and others is a prayer.
Ellen J. Barrier
#100. The whole existence is a temple ... the trees are continously in worship, the clouds are in prayer and the mountains are in meditation.
Rajneesh
