Lauren Oliver 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.

Let us pray, and as we pray, let us make room for Jesus in our hearts.

Love happens when you are ready to share with another human being. Prayer happens when you are ready to share with God.

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

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.

For me, it is essential to have the inner peace and serenity of prayer in order to listen to the silence of God, which speaks to us, in our personal life and the history of our times, of the power of love.

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.

Whatever it is that can help to bring God close is something to be revered.

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

Where love is, there God is also.

I experience God as the power of love.

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

Prayer is where the action is.

There's these things we do that take us into the zone - and we go in that place that I feel like is the place of love that you reach when you're in love or making love, or you're having a good conversation. I feel like that is God.

God is in my heart; I see God in my daughter and my mother.

It's very important to have that prayer life. It's very important to communicate always.

Trying to describe what I do in prayer would be like telling the world how I make love to my wife.

Prayer is the little implement through which men reach; where presence is denied them.

We mustn't reserve communing with God just for morning and evening prayers, or for weekly worship service, or for when we feel burdened. The goal is to realize that every moment of our lives is a meditation. Allow yourself to marvel at the wonder of God's work all around us. Throughout your day, let the sun, a tree, a piece of fruit remind you that everything you could ever want has been provided and can be found right here on earth.

You can pray while you work. Work doesn't stop prayer and prayer doesn't stop work. It requires only that small raising of the mind to him: I love you God, I trust you, I believe in you, I need you now. Small things like that. They are wonderful prayers.

There is no such things as God's word on earth. Or if there is it is not to be found in books. -Then where is it to be found?- In love. In the laughter of children. In a gift given. In a life saved. In the quiet of morning. In the dead of night. In the sound of the ocean, or the sound of a car. It can be found in anything, anywhere. It is the fabric of our lives, our feelings, the people we live with, things we know to be real.

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.

When we no longer pray, no longer listen to the voice of love that speaks to us in the moment, our lives become absurd lives in which we are thrown back and forth between the past and the future. If we could just be, for a few minutes each day, fully where we are, we would indeed discover that we are not alone and that the One who is with us wants only one thing: to give us love

When we pray, we bring G-d into the world