Victor Hugo Quotes

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

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.

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.

When you recognize the festive and the still moments as moments of prayer, then you gradually realize that to pray is to live.

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

It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills.

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

Contemplation is that condition of alert passivity, in which the soul lays itself open to the divine Ground within and without, the immanent and transcendent Godhead.

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

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

I believe in prayer and in strong belief.

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.

Soul is the central point of spiritual discipline.

I think I'm a spiritual person. I don't really go to church often when services are on, but I like going in when they are empty and quiet, and just sitting there and thinking for a little while.

Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.

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

The key is - I'll say the key - number one, I pray every day.

Prayer is where the action is.

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

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

Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit; and our wandering thoughts in prayer are but the neglects of meditation and recessions from that duty; according as we neglect meditation, so are our prayers imperfect, - meditation being the soul of prayer and the intention of our spirit.

When man is with God in awe and love, then he is praying.

Prayer draws us near to our own souls.

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