Quotes about Contemplation
Those who pray from the heart do not think about the prayer they are saying, but about the God to whom they pray.
- Francis de Sales
We should seek not so much to pray but to become prayer.
- St. Francis Of Assisi
It is a good rule never to look into the face of a man in the morning till you have looked into the face of God.
- Charles Spurgeon
No time is so well spent in every day as that which we spend upon our knees.
- JC Ryle
If you have ever prayed in the dawn you will ask yourself why you were so foolish as not to do it always: it is difficult to get into communion with God in the midst of the hurly-burly of the day.
- Oswald Chambers
Pray inwardly, even if you do not enjoy it. It does good, though you feel nothing. Yes, even though you think you are doing nothing.
- Julian of Norwich
To pray is to listen, to move through my own chattering to God, to that place where I can be silent and listen to what God may have to say.
- Madeleine L'Engle
Whole days and weeks have I spent prostrate on the ground in silent or vocal prayer.
- George Whitefield
Prayer is sitting in the silence until it silences us, choosing gratitude until we are grateful, and praising God until we ourselves are an act of praise.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
God speaks in the silence of the heart. Listening is the beginning of prayer.
- Mother Teresa
He who interrupts the course of his spiritual exercises and prayer is like a man who allows a bird to escape from his hand; he can hardly catch it again.
- John of the Cross
Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.
- Teresa of Avila