Attention Quote by Simone Weil

“Attention, taken to its highest degree, is the same thing as prayer. It presupposes faith and love. Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.”

— Simone Weil

Prayer is not what you do to get God's attention because you are already God's attenttion

— Utia

“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

Prayer as focus is not a way of limiting what can be seen; it is a habit of attention brought to bear on all…

— Patricia Hampl

“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

I don't know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention.

— Mary Oliver

Prayer is nothing else than a sense of God's presence

— Brother Lawrence

Prayer is not so much an act as it is an attitude - an attitude of dependency, dependency upon God.

— Arthur W. Pink

As we are involved in unceasing thinking, so we are called to unceasing prayer.

— Henri Nouwen

The definition of prayer is paying careful and concentrated attention to something other than your own constructions.

— W. H. Auden

Prayer is faith passing into action.

— Richard Cecil

Prayer is a concentration of positive thoughts.

— Peace Pilgrim