Michael O'Brien Quotes

Jesus himself talked about prayer and meditation. Anything that brings you closer to the Lord, what's wrong with that?

Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone with Him who we know loves us. The important thing is not to think much but to love much and so do that which best stirs you to love. Love is not great delight but desire to please God in everything.

Nothing is more important to God than prayer in dealing with mankind. But it is likewise all-important to man to pray.

Jah is love, or God, whichever way you might accept it.

We have made people in the industry and the people that see us aware that God loves them.

I experience God as the power of love.

There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God.

Everybody needs a little light in their life, and when they need prayer, they know where to come, because they know I love them all, and I ain't judging nobody.

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

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

When we pray, instead of trying to produce love in our souls toward God, we should be basking in God's love for us. How foolish to stay indoors in the cold, dark little room off the self, trying to turn on the light and turn up the heat, when we can just go outside into God's glorious Sonlight and receive his rays! How silly to fuss with artificial tanning salons and lotions and lights when the Son is out!

Prayer is not so much a way to find God as a way of resting in him...who loves us, who is near to us.

If I call not thee in my prayers, if I keep not thee in my heart, thy love for me still waits for my love.

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

The Rosary is my favorite prayer. A prayer so simple and so rich; from deepest heart, I exhort all to recite it.

Prayer is more than thoughts and feelings expressed in words. It is the opening of mind and heart - our whole being to God our Abba Father. It is Divine Union.

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.

Everything starts from prayer. Without asking God for love, we cannot possess love and still less are we able to give it to others. Just as people today are speaking so much about the poor but they do not know or talk to the poor, we too cannot talk so much about prayer and yet not know how to pray.

God has created us to love and to be loved, and this is the beginning of prayer-to know that He loves me, that I have been created for greater things.

Love is the fruit of prayer ... Patiently abiding in prayer signifies a man's renunciation of himself. Therefore the self-denial of the soul turns into love for God.

He prayeth best who loveth best.

I thank God every day.

If you need me to tell you that if you serve God, he'll heal your body and fix every one of your problems, if you need that, you're lost.

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