Attention Quote by Francois Fenelon

What we feel at prayer is God's business, not ours, and we must strive to be totally abandoned to the presence of 'consolation' or…

— Sheila Cassidy

“Prayerful paying attention is not scrunching up our willpower and tightening our focus, but simply opening our self to what we encounter. This makes…

— David G. Benner

We know that prayer in and of itself cannot save us, but carrying it out before God can. For when the Lord's eyes are…

— Gregory Palamas

Prayer draws us near to our own souls.

— Herman Melville

“The spiritual intense fixation of the mind, by contemplation on God in Christ, until the soul be as it were swallowed up in admiration…

— Timothy J. Keller

The purpose of prayer is to reveal the presence of God equally present, all the time, in every condition.

— Oswald Chambers

“The only thing we should seek in prayer is God. When we focus on how we are doing or what we are getting out…

— David G. Benner

We regard prayer no longer as a duty which must be performed, but rather as a privilege which is to be enjoyed, a rare…

— Edward McKendree Bounds

“[W]e need to remind ourselves that although prayer is a very personal and private communication with God, pouring out our repentance and sorrow for…

— Edith Schaeffer

Prayer is dedicating our thought, feeling and action to the expression of goodness. It is to become like a window through which the light…

— Wilferd Peterson

Prayer lays hold of God's plan and becomes the link between His will and its accomplishment on earth. Amazing things happen, and we are…

— Elisabeth Elliot

The Spirit of prayer makes us so intimate with God that we scarcely pass through an experience before we speak to Him about it,…

— Ole Hallesby