Will Rogers Quotes

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

There are some people who, in order not to pray use as an excuse the fact that life is so hectic that it prevents us from praying. This cannot be. Prayer does not demand that we interrupt our work, but that we continue working as if it were a prayer. It is not necessary to always be in meditation, nor to consciously experience the sensation that we are talking to God, no matter how nice that would be. What matters is being with Him, living in Him, in His will. To love with a pure heart, to love everybody, especially to live the poor, is a twenty-four hour prayer.

He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life.

Spirituality - prayer - is a big part of my life.

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.

If we really want to achieve true prayer, we must turn our backs upon everything temporal, everything external, everything that is not divine.

Silence is the pause in me when I am near to God.

[Prayer] takes no time, but it occupies all our time.

Prayer is in all things, in all gestures.

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

I’ve got to push everything out of mind save the name of Jesus. I say His name over and over again, for as long as fifteen minutes, until I find my soul suspended in what the ancient Celtic Christians called a “thin place”–a state where the boundary between heaven and earth, divine and human, dissolves. You could say that I use the name of Jesus as my koan.

For me, prayer is a surge of the heart; it is a simple look turned toward heaven, it is a cry of recognition and of love, embracing both trial and joy.

At the heart of silence is prayer. At the heart of prayer is faith. At the heart of faith is life. At the heart of life is service.

When a man falls on his knees and stretches his hands heavenward, he is doing the most natural thing in the world.

Be not forgetful of prayer. Every time you pray, if your prayer is sincere, there will be new feeling and new meaning in it, which will give you fresh courage, and you will understand that prayer is an education.

I have never met an old saint who regretted having spent too much time in prayer, but I have met many who regretted having spent too little!

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

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.

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

We can learn more in an hour praying, when praying indeed, than from many hours of rigorous study.

Work for god, love god alone, and be wise with god. When an ordinary man puts the necessary rime and enthusiasm into meditation and prayer, he becomes a divine man.

A life of prayer is a life whose litanies are ever fresh acts of self-devoting love.

Do not try to approach God with your thinking mind. It may only stimulate your intellectual ideas, activities, and beliefs. Try to approach God with your crying heart. It will awaken your soulful, spiritual consciousness.

I also work with the spirituality of people.