Attention Quote by Nicolas Malebranche Download Open image “Attentiveness is the natural prayer of the Soul,” — Nicolas Malebranche ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Attention Attentiveness Natural Nature Prayer Soul
“Paying attention is being open and awake - ready to be seized by whatever is present to us in the present moment. This is… — David G. Benner Copy Share Image
Prayer is the soul's breathing itself into the bosom of its heavenly Father. — Thomas Watson Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Prayer reveals to souls the vanity of earthly goods and pleasures. It fills them with light, strength and consolation; and gives them a foretaste… — Rose of Viterbo Copy Share Image
prayer is whenever we consciously try to get in contact with the numinous, the ineffable, the marvelous. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
True prayer is an approach of the soul by the Spirit of God to the throne of God. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Prayer is the supreme activity of all that is noblest in our personality, and the essential nature of prayer is faith. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Prayer is the human response to the perpetual outpouring of love by which God lays siege to every soul. — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
I am unable, when I turn to myself, to recognize any of my faculties or my capacities. The inner sensation which I have of… — Nicolas Malebranche Copy Share Image
We see things in this material world, wherein our bodies dwell, only because our mind through its attention lives in another world, only because… — Nicolas Malebranche Copy Share Image
In this connection, faith and experience teach us many truths by means of the short-cut of authority and by the proofs of very pleasant… — Nicolas Malebranche Copy Share Image
All creatures are united to God alone in an immediate union. They depend essentially and directly upon Him. Being all alike equally impotent, they… — Nicolas Malebranche Copy Share Image
He has willed - He wills incessantly - that the modifications of the mind and those of the body shall be reciprocal. This is… — Nicolas Malebranche Copy Share Image
Our soul is not united to our body in the ordinary sense of these terms. It is immediately and directly united to God alone. — Nicolas Malebranche Copy Share Image
God joins us together by means of the body, in consequence of the laws of the communication of movements. He affects us with the… — Nicolas Malebranche Copy Share Image
Do not fear lest you should meditate too much upon Him and speak of Him in an unworthy way, providing you are led by… — Nicolas Malebranche Copy Share Image
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to create. — Nicolas Malebranche Copy Share Image
You cannot of yourself move your arm or alter your position, situation, posture, do to other men good or evil, or effect the least… — Nicolas Malebranche Copy Share Image
It appears to me that one great cause of our difference in opinion on subjects which we often discuss is that you have always… — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
People pay far too much attention to the television and they're quite literal in some ways. At the beginning, when I was playing very… — Ardal O'Hanlon Copy Share Image
Television, radio, social media. The 24/7 news cycle plows forward mercilessly on our desks, in our cars and in our pockets. Thousands and thousands… — Joseph Prince Copy Share Image
By making conscious choices in our behavior and where we focus our attention, we can transform our experience of our body, decrease our biological… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What people don't normally know about us is the hustle is very real, and it's sorely driven a lot by how we consider ourselves.… — Lzzy Hale Copy Share Image
For me, the term "psychotherapy" is limiting. It implies that we work with mind and emotions, but excludes the body and pays scant attention… — Jed Diamond Copy Share Image
When you approach something to photograph it, first be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence. Then don't leave… — Minor White Copy Share Image
I'm writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write about is true or you wouldn't pay any… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
I went to a mosque in Philadelphia with [my wife] in December 24, 1999. And we we went to this mosque in Philly, and… — Mahershala Ali Copy Share Image
The Harvard Business Review recently had an article called 'The Human Moment,' about how to make real contact with a person at work: ...… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Let us thank God heartily as often as we pray that we have His Spirit in us to teach us to pray. Thanksgiving will… — Andy Murray Copy Share Image