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“Self must be denied as to time and attention for prayer. All-prayer cannot be wielded without the expenditure of time. "A minute with God" seldom lays hold of Him. Sustained prayer is necessary. Such time may only be found by snatching it from personal pursuits, however legitimate they may be.”

May Self Found Prayer Attention Minutes Lays Pursuit Denied Expenditures

Author:Walter J Chantry

“Our prayer service today and my words are not meant to demonize anyone, but are intended to call attention to the diabolical influences of the devil that have penetrated our culture, both in the state and in the Church. These demonic influences are not readily apparent to the undiscerning eye, which is why they are so deceptive.”

States Eye Today Culture Church Prayer Attention Influence Devil Our Prayers Deceptive Demonic Diabolical

Author:Thomas J. Paprocki

“Become aware of God, in whose presence you are while you pray . . . Then take a formula of prayer and recite it with perfect attention both to the words you are saying and to the Person to whom you are saying them.”

Persons Spiritual Prayer Perfect Attention Praying Formulas

Author:John Climacus

“Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and--prayer.”

Art Prayer Results Attention Art Is Excellence Minutiae

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“School children and students who love God should never say: "For my part I like mathematics"; "I like French"; "I like Greek." They should learn to like all these subjects, because all of them develop that faculty of attention which, directed toward God, is the very substance of prayer.”

Should Children School Prayer Attention Subjects Students Mathematics Substance God Love Greek Faculty

Book:The Simone Weil Reader

Source: The Simone Weil Reader

“prayer consists of attention. It is the orientation of all the attention of which the soul is capable towards God. The quality of the attention counts for much in the quality of the prayer. Warmth of heart cannot make up for it.”

Heart Soul Prayer Attention Quality Capable Warmth Orientation Warmth Of Heart

Book:Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)

Source: Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)

“I have abandoned all particular forms of devotion, all prayer techniques. My only prayer practice is attention. I carry on a habitual, silent, and secret conversation with God that fills me with overwhelming joy.”

God Form Joy Prayer Secret Attention Practice Teacher Particular Conversation Silent Technique Devotion Overwhelming Abandoned Habitual Conversations With God

Author:Brother Lawrence

“In centering prayer, the sacred word is not the object of the attention but rather the expression of the intention of the will.”

Prayer Attention Objects Expression Sacred Intention Centering Centering Prayer

Author:Thomas Keating

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

Giving Soul Prayer Attention Capable Careful

Author:Simone Weil

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

Knows Prayer Pay Attention Know How Pay Attention Summer Days Precious Life How Precious Life Is

Book:The Truro Bear and Other Adventures: Poems and Essays

Source: The Truro Bear and Other Adventures: Poems and Essays

“There are two principal points of attention necessary for the preservation of this constant spirit of prayer which unites us with God; we must continually seek to cherish it, and we must avoid everything that tends to make us lose it.”

Two Spirit Loses Prayer Attention Constant Cherish Principal Preservation

Author:Francois Fenelon

“So often, we want big directional signs from God. God just wants us to pay attention. But we need to leave enough space in our days to get up from our prayers and actually look for God in the moment-to-moment things that happen.”

Want Needs Looks Enough Moments Bigs Happens Prayer Space Pay Attention Get Up Pay Attention Want U Our Prayers Signs From God

Author:Lysa TerKeurst

“Let us thank God heartily as often as we pray that we have His Spirit in us to teach us to pray. Thanksgiving will draw our hearts out to God and keep us engaged with Him; it will take our attention from ourselves and give the Spirit room in our hearts.”

Giving Heart Spirit Prayer Rooms Attention Teach Praying Draws Engaged Thank God Thankfulness

Author:Andy Murray

“No problem is too small for His attention nor so large that He cannot answer the prayer of faith. Prayer surely is the passport to spiritual power.”

Problem Spiritual Prayer Answers Attention No Problem Passports Spiritual Power Faith Prayers

Author:Thomas S. Monson

“Prayer can truly change your life. For it turns your attention away from yourself and directs your mind and your heart toward the Lord. If we look only at ourselves, with our own limitations and sins, we quickly give way to sadness and discouragement. But if we keep our eyes fixed on the Lord, then our hearts are filled with hope, our minds are washed n the light of truth, and we come to know the fullness of the Gospel with all is promise and life.”

Ifs Knows Way Giving Mind Looks Heart Light Eye Turns Prayer Sin Attention Lord Sadness Promise Filled Limitation Fixed Changing Your Life Fullness Discouragement

Author:Pope John Paul II

“It is a great tragedy when those who are afflicted with adversity or a source of hopelessness turn their backs on prayer. To their peril, they ignore that spiritual lifeline just at the time when their attention to it most needs to be intensified. By so doing they cut themselves of from revelation and inspiration and deprive themselves of hearing the Lord's voice. They give up the prospect of gaining the very hope and comfort for which their hearts yearn.”

“Prayer is never just an emergency flare or desperate anxious gamble. God's attention is not based on our performance but parental love.”

Prayer Attention Performances Desperate Anxious Emergencies Gamble Parental Flare Parental Love

Author:Timothy Keller