James Redfield Quotes

The most important lesson we can learn is how to pray. Prayers do not die, prayers live before God, and God's heart is set on them.

By listening to your higher self, or Atman, you can return to the truth that's already inside of you and in the process change not only yourself, but the entire world, through positivity and love.

Prayer is the window that God has placed in the walls of our world. Leave it shut and the world is a cold, dark house. But throw back the curtains and see His light. Open the window and hear His voice. Open the window of prayer and invoke the presence of God in your world.

When prayer fades out, power fades out. We are as spiritual as we are prayerful; no more, no less.

I went from a D all the way to an A plus, I tell you prayer changes things.

A primary goal of the spiritual life is to learn to quiet the mind through prayer and meditation, through spiritual practice, so that we can hear what in both Judaism and Christianity, is called the small, still voice within.

None can believe how powerful prayer is, and what it is able to effect, but those who have learned it by experience.

It seems like the chaos of this world is accelerating, but so is the beauty in the consciousness of more and more people.

I like the monastic life... in the prayer and the praising... this has charged me with new energy, spiritual energy. This is very important for my ministry outside the monastery.

No problem is too small for His attention nor so large that He cannot answer the prayer of faith. Prayer surely is the passport to spiritual power.

Prayer continues to provide power--spiritual power. Prayer continues to provide peace--spiritual peace.

If we ask of the saints how they achieved spiritual effectiveness, they are only able to reply that, insofar as they did it themselves, they did it by love and prayer.

Meditation is not a means to an end. It is both the means and the end.

It’s perfectly natural for me to sit down and talk about meditating and spiritual practice with my friends. But then I realize, how would it sound to a drunk cynical guy in London?

. . . in the spiritual life you must practice. And the only way to practice is by trying to solve your problems with prayer. This develops your spiritual power and it also trains you to use that spiritual power in the most effective way.

Believe in the power of prayer - it is real, it is wonderful, it is tremendous.

Each of us has some change within us, we cannot change the political or the social system of the world unless we change inside of us as individuals and that’s the direction I am in now which I call spiritual.

Prayer for revival will prevail when it is accompanied by radical amendment of life; not before.

Prayer irrigates the fields of life with the waters which are stored up in the reservoirs of promise.

I've seen so many cases where lives have been transformed for the good and heard so many stories about this. The technique of Transcendental Meditation really works for the human being.

The possibility of stepping into a higher plane is quite real for everyone. It requires no force or effort or sacrifice. It involves little more than changing our ideas about what is normal.

In ... silence we find a new energy and a real unity. God's energy becomes our, allowing us to perform things well.

It is impossible to have a prayer without power.

The habit of prayer communicates a penetrating sweetness to the glance, the voice, the smile, the tears,--to all one says, or does, or writes.

If you are strangers to prayer you are strangers to power.