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Prayer Quotes by Thomas Keating
- St. Teresa of Avila wrote: 'All difficulties in prayer can be traced to one cause: praying as if God were absent.' This is the conviction…
- The root of prayer is interior silence.
- You should not take prayer too seriously. There is something playful about God. You only have to look at a penguin ... to realize that…
- In centering prayer, the sacred word is not the object of the attention but rather the expression of the intention of the will.
- 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…
- 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…
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- When I immersed myself in prayer and united myself with all the Masses that were being celebrated all over the world at… — Mary Faustina Kowalska
- A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil… — Teresa of Avila
- In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- I don't know what heavy penance I would not have gladly undertaken rather than practice prayer. — Teresa of Avila
- The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave - caring nothing whether the words are suitable or… — Teresa of Avila
- Prayer in the sense of petition, asking for things, is a small part of it; confession and penitence are its threshold, adoration… — C.S. Lewis
- Prayer is not intended to change God's purpose, nor is it to move Him to form fresh purposes. God has decreed that… — Arthur W. Pink
- Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone… — Teresa of Avila