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“You can use meditation, and prayer, and ritual to foster compassion, love, and inclusiveness, or you can use them to foster hatred, and exclusiveness, and anger. And it's really just a matter of what concepts, ideas you decide to focus on.”

“When depression or suicidal thoughts weigh heavily, the hardest thing to do is to fight. My battle weapons are the Word of God, meditation, confession, community, and worship. But each evening I take my medication with a prayer of thanksgiving that God has provided this kind of help for those of us who need it.”

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Author:Sheila Walsh

“Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation the source of strength is one's self. When one prays he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.”

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Author:Madame de Stael

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

Jesus Prayer Lord Meditation

Author:Dennis Quaid

“Reading is a form of prayer, a guided meditation that briefly makes us believe we're someone else, disrupting the delusion that we're permanent and at the center of the universe. Suddenly (we're saved!) other people are real again, and we're fond of them.”

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Author:George Saunders

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

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Author:Marianne Williamson

“When you cease from labour, fill up your time in reading, meditation, and prayer: and while your hands are labouring, let your heart be employed, as much as possible, in divine thoughts.”

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Book:The Life of the Rev. David Brainerd ... A New Edition, Carefully Revised and Corrected. [With Brainerd's Journal.]

Source: The Life of the Rev. David Brainerd ... A New Edition, Carefully Revised and Corrected. [With Brainerd's Journal.]

“Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.”

Source: False Memory

“No amount of prayer or meditation can do what helping others can do.”

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Author:Meher Baba

“meditation vs prayer = listening vs talking”

Prayer Talking Meditation Listening

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“Meditating on the nature and dignity of prayer can cause saying at least one thing to God: Lord, teach us to pray!”

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Book:The Need and the Blessing of Prayer

Source: The Need and the Blessing of Prayer

“How can we turn our knowledge about God into knowledge of God? The rule for doing this is simple but demanding. It is that we turn each Truth that we learn about God into matter for meditation before God, leading to prayer and praise to God.”

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Book:Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide

Source: Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide

“Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths, or the turning inwards in prayer for five short minutes.”

Source: Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943

“Meditation is earnest prayer, and when prayer progresses, it becomes true meditation.”

Prayer Meditation Progress Earnest

Book:The Call of Sedona: Journey of the Heart

Source: The Call of Sedona: Journey of the Heart

“Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand. Anyone may gather it and no limit is set. Everyone can reach this love through meditation, spirit of prayer, and sacrifice, by an intense inner life.”

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Author:Mother Teresa

“But I am all for love, and I am against marriage, particularly the arranged kind, because the arranged marriage gives you satisfaction. And love? - love can never satisfy you. It gives you more and more thirst for a better and better love, it makes you more and more long for it, it gives you tremendous discontentment. And that discontent is the beginning of the search for God. When love fails many times, you start looking for a new kind of lover, a new kind of love, a new quality of love. That love affair is prayer, meditation, sannyas.”

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Author:Rajneesh

“Prayer is the wing wherewith the soul flies to heaven, and meditation the eye wherewith we see God.”

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Author:Ambrose

“Overall, my books represent a kind of shared communion and meditation with my fellow human beings... The books are also a part of what I call the great continuum of spiritual literary dialogue that I feel has been in progress since human beings first gave in to the urge to pray to their sense of something greater than themselves and interpreted certain signs or events or silences as responses to those prayers.”

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Author:Aberjhani

“Crying is one of the highest devotional songs. One who knows crying, knows spiritual practice. If you can cry with a pure heart, nothing else compares to such a prayer, Crying includes all the principles of Yoga.”

“The essence of meditation is a period of time set aside to contemplate the Lord, listen to Him, and allow Him to permeate our spirits.”

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Book:How to Listen to God

Source: How to Listen to God

“Yours will be the wings of an eagle's flight, the soaring of a lark, sunward, heavenward, Godward! But you must take time to be holy - in meditation, in prayer, and especially in the use of the Bible.”

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Book:OUR DAILY WALK

Source: OUR DAILY WALK

“Give yourself to prayer, to reading and meditation on divine truths: strive to penetrate to the bottom of them and never be content with a superficial knowledge.”

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Book:An Account of the Life of Dav. Brainerd, Missionary to the Indians

Source: An Account of the Life of Dav. Brainerd, Missionary to the Indians

“Prayer that is born of meditation upon the Word of God is the prayer that soars upward most easily to God's listening ears.”

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Book:HOW TO PRAY: The Importance of Prayer [Second Edition]

Source: HOW TO PRAY: The Importance of Prayer [Second Edition]

“It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by our own thoughts.”

Prayer Meditation Importance Frightened Practise

Book:General introduction. Life. Spiritual relations

Source: General introduction. Life. Spiritual relations

“We must meditate before, during and after everything we do. The prophet says: "I will pray, and then I will understand." This is the way we can easily overcome the countless difficulties we have to face day after day, which, after all, are part of our work. In meditation we find the strength to bring Christ to birth in ourselves and in others.”

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Author:Carlo Borromeo

“In order to succeed in it (prayer), it should be done when we first awaken, when our whole being is calm and recollected. We need to make our meditation before anything else.”

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Author:Peter Julian Eymard

“First prepare the ground, then prayer happens on its own accord. Prayer is something that you cannot do. Meditation is something that you can do because it has something to do with your mind.”

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Author:Rajneesh

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