Quotes About Centering Prayer

#1. Centering prayer is a training in letting go.

Thomas Keating

#2. In centering prayer, the sacred word is not the object of the attention but rather the expression of the intention of the will.

Thomas Keating

#3. Another way to think about Centering Prayer is training the mind to become free from distractions so it can "rest in God.

Amos Smith

#4. While doing centering prayer, the practice is to let go of any thought or perception. The priority is to be as silent as possible and when that is not possible to let the noise of the thoughts be the sacred symbol for a while, without analyzing them.

Thomas Keating

#5. Other forms of relating to God that have unique value in connecting us to Him include contemplative prayer and centering prayer.

Larry Crabb

#6. 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

#7. Centering prayer involves consenting to God's presence and action within - beyond thoughts, images, and perceptions - in order to form a contemplative relationship with God.

David Frenette

#8. We are summoned not only to intimacy but to take possession of our very oneness with the Son of God in the inner life of the Trinity in the communication of the very Love of Father and Son, the Most Holy Spirit. This is what centering prayer is about.

M. Basil Pennington

#9. It means we can't change what's already happened, but we can have an impact on what happens next.

Hugh Howey

#10. Labels are for cans, not for people.

Jared Leto

#11. Conquer no man than yourself.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#12. Learn to listen to subtle cues from your spirit instead of the barrage coming from your brain.

David Brazzeal

#13. To write a kernel without a data structure and have it be as consistent and graceful as UNIX would have been a much, much harder challenge.

Rob Pike

#14. Expandable is exactly what a marriage is. If you refuse the possibility that bad things might happen, a marriage cannot survive.

Courtney Maum

#15. He looked up. "Did you just leave them where they were?" Watkins nodded. "I thought we

Rhys Bowen

#16. RESIST no thought; RETAIN no thought; REACT to no thought; RETURN to the sacred word.

Cynthia Bourgeault

#17. I'm not an expert on the ways of Washington [but] it makes no sense to me that we're not funding control of our border.

Jeb Bush

#18. The Alexandrian Mystics' emphasis on silent prayer gave their teachings interior depth missing from Western theology today.

Amos Smith

#19. Even when you're at the top, there's always something higher,

Keigo Higashino

#20. Where was my guardian angel when I needed him most? If only I knew.

A. Esquivel

#21. For years I'd understood that publishing in paperback was the kiss of death.

Christina Baker Kline

#22. What if you spent some alone time every morning? Call it prayer. Call it planning. Call it centering. I call it a powerful way to begin the day.

Steve Goodier

#23. Success is less interesting than struggle. There is great pleasure in the effort.

Willa Cather

#24. I probably listen to Burn more than any of them, because it was so new me, so novel. To see my name on an actual record was such an incredible feeling.

David Coverdale

#25. That really pissed me off, because I am worth it, goddamn it!"
"I know you - "
"Still talking here!

Robin L. Rotham