Pope John Paul II Quotes

I open my mind and allow the Holy Spirit to come in.

Your soul is between you and God.

We must first pray, that God would make us wise; before we can wish, he would make us happy.

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 know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I'm praying, but also something wonderful happens to me. I'm grateful that I'm heard.

I know that life is really finding the right relationship between yourself and God.

I gain strength from postive thought and from the daily conversation with God.

The greatest answer to prayer is that I am brought into a perfect understanding with God, and that alters my view of actual things.

Man is at his greatest and highest when upon his knees he comes face to face with God.

The joy of the presence of Jesus, you must be able to give wherever you go. But you cannot give what you don't have. That's why you need a pure heart, a pure heart that you will receive as a fruit of your prayer, as a fruit of your oneness with Christ.

Faith induces one to pray.Prayer purifies the heart.In the purified heart is reflected the light of Lord.When the Light sighns the mortal becomes immortal.

In the silence of the heart God speaks. If you face God in prayer and silence, God will speak to you. Then you will know that you are nothing. It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself. Souls of prayer are souls of great silence.

Let there be cultivated an awareness in every member's heart of his own potential for bringing others to a knowledge of the truth. Let him work at it. Let him pray with great earnestness about it

The more you drop into your heart, the more God can drop into your mind.

Read a little. Meditate more. Think of God all the time.

Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for it.

I can't really connect with things unless they are spiritual in nature, so I have to make acting spiritual for myself, and each role a spiritual journey for me.

The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

Religion is not a burden, not a weight, it is wings.

Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.

Over the years as I went through a lot more things, I've gotten closer and closer to God as far as praying a lot more, being into the Word.

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

Prayer is man's greatest power!

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.