Martin Luther Quotes

You don't necessarily have to be religious to pray.

Prayer is where the action is.

I know that I pray a lot, and I take time for myself.

Each morning and night I get down on my knees and thank God for my life and ask Him to make me grateful all the time instead of just most of the time.

[Prayer] takes no time, but it occupies all our time.

I don't know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention.

I don't pray enough, but I pray more now. Every morning at six o'clock have a half hour of meditation before the Blessed Sacrament. I pray with others too.

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

I pray. Prayer is a time to connect with the divine, but also time, I'm sure, to concentrate one's thoughts, to meditate, and to imagine what might be.

Prayer should not be merely an act, but an attitude of life.

No time is so well spent in every day as that which we spend upon our knees.

At night always carry in your heart something from Holy Scriptures to bed with you, meditate upon it like a ruminant animal, and go softly to sleep; but this must not be too much, rather a little that may be well pondered and understood, that you may find a remnant of it in your mind when you rise in the morning.

He is thinking quietly: I should not have got out of the habit of prayer.

I pray to start my day and finish it in prayer.

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

I do get up in the morning and I try to spend at least half an hour meditating and reading something spiritual. I start my day with meditation and prayer, and I truly believe that all the stuff you do on the outside isn't as important as what you do on the inside.

Prayer is the most important thing that I do.

My grandparents and my mom prayed the rosary a lot, and later in life, I had a priest friend of mine teach me centering prayer, based on Father Thomas Keating's work. That led to practicing different kinds of meditation off and on as I got older.

It's really important to me to pray.

I wake up and meditate for 20 minutes. The first thing I do when I wake up is say, 'Thank you.'

Every day, I wake up and say, 'Good Morning, Jesus.'

What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer.

Take prayer with you wherever you go. Say it anytime, and then focus your mind and heart on God.

Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit; and our wandering thoughts in prayer are but the neglects of meditation and recessions from that duty; according as we neglect meditation, so are our prayers imperfect, - meditation being the soul of prayer and the intention of our spirit.

Good praying is more easily caught than taught.