Quotes about Centering
There is a reason Scripture instructs us to "hold fast our confession" of faith (Heb. 4:14), and to pray without being double minded or without wavering (James 1:5—8). Confession is always verbal and never just mental agreement. Prayer is verbal petitioning but holding on to your prayer centers on confession
- Perry Stone
don't want everything that's going on to be a…distraction for you two. I don't want you to
- Lisa Wingate
If I can center down and strengthen the core of who I am, and the core of who I am is my relationship with God, then that helps me maintain peace deep down. If I can maintain a healthy spiritual core, I think that's enormous for helping the stress.
- Anne Graham Lotz
Whenever you're carried away by thinking, overwhelmed by strong emotions, or feeling restless and dispersed, return to your breathing. Bring body and mind together and anchor your mind. Become aware of the air coming in and going out of your body.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Monastic prayer begins not so much with "considerations" as with a "return to the heart," finding one's deepest center, awakening the profound depths of our being
- Thomas Merton
She was amazed at how easily distracted she could be when praying.
- Chris Fabry
It is only in orienting his life to the divine center that a person can secure anything else he desires and yet not be based upon it.
- Stephen Covey
Worship is focus.
- Beth Moore
We may think we are centering our lives on God when we are really making Him a means to self-esteem.
- John Piper
A life of praise and thankfulness becomes a life filled with miracles. Instead of trying to be in control, you focus on Me and what I am doing. This is the power of praise: centering your entire being in Me. This is how I created you to live, for I made you in My own image. Enjoy abundant life by overflowing with praise and
- Sarah Young
When you center life around yourself, not only do you miss out on God's best, but you rob other people of the joy and blessings that God wants to give them through you.
- Joel Osteen
The determined fixing of our will upon God, and pressing toward him steadily and without deflection; this is the very center and the art of prayer.
- Evelyn Underhill