Best Centering Prayer Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Healing the Divide: Recovering Christianity's Mystic Roots

“RESIST no thought; RETAIN no thought; REACT to no thought; RETURN to the sacred word.”

Book:Centering Prayer and Inner Awakening

Source: Centering Prayer and Inner Awakening

“Another way to think about Centering Prayer is training the mind to become free from distractions so it can “rest in God.”

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Book:Healing the Divide: Recovering Christianity's Mystic Roots

Source: Healing the Divide: Recovering Christianity's Mystic Roots

“We are summoned not only to intimacy but to take possession of our very oneness with the Son of God in the inner life of the Trinity in the communication of the very Love of Father and Son, the Most Holy Spirit. This is what centering prayer is about.”

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Book:Centered Living: The Way of Centering Prayer

Source: Centered Living: The Way of Centering Prayer

“Centering Prayer is an opening, a response, a putting aside of all the debris that stands in the way of our being totally present to the present Lord, so that He can be present to us. It is a laying aside of thoughts, so that the heart can attend immediately to Him. All prayer is a response. The Lord first knocks, beckons, calls to us.”

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Book:Centering Prayer: Renewing an Ancient Christian Prayer Form

Source: Centering Prayer: Renewing an Ancient Christian Prayer Form

“Learn to listen to subtle cues from your spirit instead of the barrage coming from your brain.”

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Book:Pray Like a Gourmet: Creative Ways to Feed Your Soul

Source: Pray Like a Gourmet: Creative Ways to Feed Your Soul

“I struggled to find just the right words so He would understand the nature and motive of my request. It suddenly dawned on me that I was an idiot. "What a goose," Pascaline Coff whispered to me when I told this story to her fellow Benedictine sisters. God already knew my heart.”

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Book:God's Patient Pursuit of My Soul

Source: God's Patient Pursuit of My Soul

“I can't learn or will myself into God's holiness, but my own willpower and planning can make all of the difference in whether I am present for God and his transformation.”

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Book:Flee, Be Silent, Pray: An Anxious Evangelical Finds Peace with God through Contemplative Prayer

Source: Flee, Be Silent, Pray: An Anxious Evangelical Finds Peace with God through Contemplative Prayer

“While doing centering prayer, the practice is to let go of any thought or perception. The priority is to be as silent as possible and when that is not possible to let the noise of the thoughts be the sacred symbol for a while, without analyzing them.”

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Author:Thomas Keating

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

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Author:Thomas Keating

“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.”

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Author:Thomas Keating

“This mystical stream [contemplative prayer] is the Western bridge to Far Eastern spirituality.”

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Author:Tilden Edwards

“Centering prayer is a training in letting go.”

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Author:Thomas Keating

“Other forms of relating to God that have unique value in connecting us to Him include contemplative prayer and centering prayer.”

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Book:The Papa Prayer: The Prayer You've Never Prayed

Source: The Papa Prayer: The Prayer You've Never Prayed

“I've practiced centering prayer. I've contemplatively prayed. I've prayed liturgically... I've benefited from each, and I still do. In ways you'll see, elements of each style are still with me.”

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Book:The Papa Prayer: The Prayer You've Never Prayed

Source: The Papa Prayer: The Prayer You've Never Prayed