Johannes Tauler Quotes

Do not neglect secret prayer, for it is the soul of religion.

Frequent prayer has great value. On its surface, this sounds simplistic. But if we're to keep prayer at the forefront of our ministry, we and our people have to pray again and again.

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.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

I have a whole regimen to my day: my vocal warm-ups, my prayers, my meditations... I pray three times a day. I try to have a real experience praying, not just do it. I really get deep into the idea and really try to get somewhere with it, to have an in-depth understanding of the idea.

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

My day starts with the chanting of Gayatri Mantra and Om Namah Shivay. I chant them every time I bowl.

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

I do devotion in the morning. I pray and I read the word.

It's very important to have that prayer life. It's very important to communicate always.

Prayer is the chief exercise of faith.

Begin each day with God. It will change your priorities.

To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a man so concentrates his attention - on a landscape, a poem, a geometrical problem, an idol, or the True God - that he completely forgets his own ego and desires, he is praying. The primary task of the schoolteacher is to teach children, in a secular context, the technique of prayer.

Nothing is more vital than prayer in Christian existence, and few things are more vulnerable to neglect.

The inattentive, slovenly way we drift into the presence of God is an indication that we are not bothering to think about Him. Whenever our Lord spoke of prayer, He said, "Ask." It is impossible to ask if you do not concentrate.

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

If you have never had any distractions you don't know how to pray.

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

To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself.

Prayer is the raising of the mind to God. We must always remember this. The actual words matter less.

Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone with Him who we know loves us. The important thing is not to think much but to love much and so do that which best stirs you to love. Love is not great delight but desire to please God in everything.

For the life of me, I still don't understand why humans pray.

Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy.

Praying doesn't mean repeating a prayer.

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