Tony Campolo Quotes

Let us pray, and as we pray, let us make room for Jesus in our hearts.

I am a very spiritual person. Maybe not traditionally religious in terms of Sunday Mass every week, that sort of thing.

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

One might pray and not be a Christian, but one cannot be a Christian and not pray.

I'd rather be able to pray than to be a great preacher; Jesus Christ never taught his disciples how to preach, but only how to pray.

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

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

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

The man who prays ceases to be a fool

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.

If you're going to say the Jesus Prayer, at least say it to Jesus, and not to St. Francis and Seymour and Heidi's grandfather all wrapped up in one.

To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world.

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

There is no need to get to a place of prayer; pray wherever you are.

I think poetry has started to take on a supplementary role of prayer for some people. The churches, I think, including my own, are terrible at teaching people how to pray. It may be that we need to learn from the ground up as religious people, whether Christian or not, how to pray.

We were so fundamental that almost everything had been stripped away from the place of worship. Think of the role words can play, when all other enticements and sensual attractions are gone.

I'd like to learn to meditate with more enthusiasm. I can sit down and get quiet for 20 minutes, but it just has not been a part of my Christianity at all.

Prayer is the most concrete way to make our home in God.

I was raised Presbyterian, but I'm not really going to church. I think the experience in meditation is pretty much where it's at for me.

I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody's life.

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 pray every day, several times. It soothes me. I don't ask for anything, except for health.

Spirituality - prayer - is a big part of my 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.

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