Emmet Fox Quotes

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.

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.

When you meditate or pray... both are forms of meditation... you give up control and find the answer and you open yourself to receive God's gift, the universal force, or whatever that is.

Prayer is simply coming into the presence of God. Because when you come into the presence of God, even the things you don't have matter a lot less.

The one thing you absolutely need is the one thing you can never lose: God's presence and love for you. Just have to talk to him.

Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will.

My hectic work schedule does not often permit me time to visit temples, but my conversations with God don't depend on idol worship. Inside my heart, I have developed and sustained a direct communication with Him.

I talk to God every single day. And I say, 'God, my life is in your hands, and I trust you with me.'

I have never been religious. I talk to God every day, but He's never said a word to me about religion! I think the most powerful prayer is surrender.

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.

More than anything, praying just helps me to concentrate and let go of things that don't matter in that moment. It gives me peace knowing I'm in good hands.

I believe in God and the power of prayer.

I talk to God every day. He's very real for me.

I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness.

Me and God has a good relationship.

I really believe in prayer.

I don't have any answers, but in my personal opinion, I'm a person that has faith and I believe that a lot of people have neglected God.

One of the best gifts we can give ourselves is time alone with God.

God is near whether you sense His presence or not.

We may not be able to give much but we can always give the joy that springs in a heart that is in LOVE WITH GOD.

Prayer enters the pool of God's love and widens outward.

Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.

I believe that ultimately it all comes down to whether we seek conscious contact with God on a daily basis through prayer and meditation.

No one can pray and worry at the same time. When we worry, we aren't praying. When we pray, we aren't worrying.