Paul Washer Quotes

Prayer does not demand that we interrupt our work, but that we continue working as if it were a prayer.

Spirituality - prayer - is a big part of my life.

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

If we really want to achieve true prayer, we must turn our backs upon everything temporal, everything external, everything that is not divine.

Good praying is more easily caught than taught.

There are some people who, in order not to pray use as an excuse the fact that life is so hectic that it prevents us from praying. This cannot be. Prayer does not demand that we interrupt our work, but that we continue working as if it were a prayer. It is not necessary to always be in meditation, nor to consciously experience the sensation that we are talking to God, no matter how nice that would be. What matters is being with Him, living in Him, in His will. To love with a pure heart, to love everybody, especially to live the poor, is a twenty-four hour prayer.

Be not forgetful of prayer. Every time you pray, if your prayer is sincere, there will be new feeling and new meaning in it, which will give you fresh courage, and you will understand that prayer is an education.

The Simple Path Silence is Prayer Prayer is Faith Faith is Love Love is Service The Fruit of Service is Peace

The trouble with our praying is, we just do it as a means of last resort.

To pray well is the better half of study.

We can learn more in an hour praying, when praying indeed, than from many hours of rigorous study.

Work for god, love god alone, and be wise with god. When an ordinary man puts the necessary rime and enthusiasm into meditation and prayer, he becomes a divine man.

Meditating on the nature and dignity of prayer can cause saying at least one thing to God: Lord, teach us to pray!

A life of prayer is a life whose litanies are ever fresh acts of self-devoting love.

I meditate on God's life and I read the scriptures. I read something about Him, go through it and spend a lot of time by myself.

Do not try to approach God with your thinking mind. It may only stimulate your intellectual ideas, activities, and beliefs. Try to approach God with your crying heart. It will awaken your soulful, spiritual consciousness.

Every day I'm trying to be more humble and how do you do that? I guess, every day, we have mass. Every day, I pray the rosary. That's what I do.

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.

I hope I'm a spiritual person. I'm trying to be a spiritual person.

Passion is best spent on God; so get committed.

I am trying to get closer to God.

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.

He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life.

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.

Religion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, 'Be still, and know that I am God.' But they are still just vehicles. The Buddha called his teaching a raft: You don't need to carry it around with you after you've crossed the river.