Faith and love Quote by Simone Weil

Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.

— Simone Weil

“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

“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

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

Attention is the cardinal psychological virtue. On it depends perhaps the other cardinal virtues, for there can hardly be faith nor hope nor love…

— James Hillman

“We do not pray so that we can get God's attention. We pray so that God will get our attention.”

— David G. Benner

prayer consists of attention. It is the orientation of all the attention of which the soul is capable towards God. The quality of the…

— Simone Weil

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

— Utia

“Prayer is thinking deeply about something in the presence of God.”

— Wayne Cordeiro

Attention is the beginning of devotion.

— Mary Oliver

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

— W. H. Auden

In centering prayer, the sacred word is not the object of the attention but rather the expression of the intention of the will.

— Thomas Keating