Tim Ryan Quotes

By turning your eyes on God in meditation, your whole soul will be filled with God. Begin all your prayers in the presence of God.

I've only paid lip service to a spiritual life.

When you meditate or pray... both are forms of meditation... you give up control and find the answer and you open yourself to receive God's gift, the universal force, or whatever that is.

I pray and I meditate every day. It can be a great, great asset.

Sometimes I just sit still and enjoy God's presence.

I meditate and pray multiple times a week to guide myself with divine clarity.

I open my mind and allow the Holy Spirit to come in.

I find the practice of yoga very spiritual and taking the time to just be and to reflect through meditation and chanting helps me to connect to a higher energy.

A lot of people have questioned how yoga and their own spiritual beliefs can come together. Yoga actually pre-dates religion.

The thing that brings people to wail at a wall, or face Mecca, or to go to church, is a search for that feeling of purity.

My hectic work schedule does not often permit me time to visit temples, but my conversations with God don't depend on idol worship. Inside my heart, I have developed and sustained a direct communication with Him.

Do I pray? Yes. Prayer is very important to me.

I believe in prayer and in strong belief.

One of the values of centering prayer is that you are not thinking about God during the time of centering prayer so you are giving God a chance to manifest. In centering prayer there are moments of peace that give the psyche a chance to realize that God may not be so bad after all. God has a chance to be himself for a change.

I think I'm a spiritual person. I don't really go to church often when services are on, but I like going in when they are empty and quiet, and just sitting there and thinking for a little while.

I took that time off - I knew it was messing me up, not being connected to a spiritual plane.

Jesus himself talked about prayer and meditation. Anything that brings you closer to the Lord, what's wrong with that?

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

The key is - I'll say the key - number one, I pray every day.

I think that the power of the Silent Minute lies in its inherent lack of external direction: what participants actually do during that minute - prayer, contemplation, focus - is up to them.

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.

I pray every day and think everybody should.

I talk to God every day. He's very real for me.

I pray and meditate every morning for anywhere between 15 to 50 minutes.

My prayer life and my connection with God are on the highest level.