Thomas R. Kelly Quotes

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

Your inner voice is the voice of divinity. To hear it, we need to be in solitude, even in crowded places.

When you recognize the festive and the still moments as moments of prayer, then you gradually realize that to pray is to live.

So this is how you swim inward. So this is how you flow outwards. So this is how you pray.

I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness.

My spiritual practice reminds me of what's really real, what's really hood.

I'm really in touch, whether it's prayer or meditation... there are so many powers greater than me in the world. I've been blessed and lucky enough to have been given a gift to share with other people.

Silence, you know, is the best place to get close to spirit for me.

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 write in my study, where I also have my prayer altar. I believe that keeps me focused and gives me positive energy and reminds me that I'm merely the instrument of greater creative forces.

God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament.

Chanting was very deep for me. It was as if I remembered it. It was like a real surrender.

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.

The truth is that you can only come to know God when you give up the past and the future in your mind and merge totally into the now, because God is always here now.

The reason why I meditate and pray in general is just to remind myself that it is not about me.

I think prayerful meditation, being still in a space, being still with God, I don't do that enough. It's crazy, because when I do do it, I always walk away from it going, 'Why the hell am I not doing that more?'

When the Divine descends, you just accommodate.

The first thing I do when I get up is pray and meditate to center myself for the day ahead. I ask for inspiration in my creative endeavors, guidance in my relationships and patience in my journey. It's a great way to get focused for the day.

God is a spirit and converses with us in a quiet atmosphere because our minds are not capable of listening to his voice when they are filled with noise and confusion.

We mustn't reserve communing with God just for morning and evening prayers, or for weekly worship service, or for when we feel burdened. The goal is to realize that every moment of our lives is a meditation. Allow yourself to marvel at the wonder of God's work all around us. Throughout your day, let the sun, a tree, a piece of fruit remind you that everything you could ever want has been provided and can be found right here on earth.

Joy and laughter are the gifts of living in the presence of God and trusting that tomorrow is not worth worrying about.

Spirituality is recognizing the divine light that is within us all. It doesn't belong to any particular religion; it belongs to everyone

Prayer is simply coming into the presence of God. Because when you come into the presence of God, even the things you don't have matter a lot less.

When you're connected to God, every moment is perfectly perfect.

I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the colour and fragrance of a flower - the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence.