Peter Kreeft Quotes

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 is the very highest energy of which the mind is capable.

Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.

Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.

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

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

Prayer is happy company with God.

Good praying is more easily caught than taught.

Remember that you can pray any time, anywhere. Washing dishes, digging ditches, working in the office, in the shop, on the athletic field, even in prison - you can pray and know God hears!

Every time we pray our horizon is altered, our attitude to things is altered, not sometimes but every time, and the amazing thing is that we don't pray more.

The first, the middle and the last thing to do is to pray.

Everything starts with prayer. Love to pray-feel the need to pray often during the day and take the trouble to pray. If you want to pray better, you must pray more. The more you pray, the easier it becomes. Perfect prayer does not consist of many words but in the fervor of the desire which raises the heart to Jesus.

And then, in that regal silence, finally - I began to meditate on (and with) God.

When I wake up, I immediately pray. When I go to sleep, I pray. Honestly, a prayer every second, in every breath. I suggest the whole world to do it. Prayer is amazing.

My secret is simple -- I pray.

Prayer is so incredibly powerful. It keeps you in perfect peace.

Prayer is - not just bowing your head a few times a day, it pervades all of life.

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

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

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

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

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.

Prayer is where the action is.

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.