Quotes about Contemplation
May our prayers today, and every day, be from our hearts and with the focus of our whole being.
- Billy Graham
Every single emotion you have should be processed in prayer.
- Timothy Keller
Abiding fully means praying much.
- Andrew Murray
Oh, will you pray? Stop now and pray, lest desire turn to feeling and feeling evaporate.
- Amy Carmichael
Prayer is more than words. It's listening, seeing and feeling.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Prayer draws us near to our own souls.
- Herman Melville
If by losing the spirit of prayer, you mean losing the heavenly sensations of deep devotion, I am afraid that does not matter a scrap.
- Evelyn Underhill
If we really want to achieve true prayer, we must turn our backs upon everything temporal, everything external, everything that is not divine.
- Johannes Tauler
Mankind have such a deep stake in inward illumination, that there is much to be said by the hermit or monk in defence of his life of thought and prayer.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Rosary is my favorite prayer. A prayer so simple and so rich; from deepest heart, I exhort all to recite it.
- Pope John Paul II
Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
He is thinking quietly: I should not have got out of the habit of prayer.
- William Faulkner