Attention Quote by Simone Weil

Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.

— Simone Weil

Prayer is an attitude of the heart.

— Larry Dossey

Prayer is a sincere, sensible, affectionate pouring out of the soul to God, through Christ, in the strength and assistance of the Spirit, for…

— John Bunyan

Prayer is naught else but a yearning of soul ... it draws down the great God into the little heart; it drives the hungry…

— Mechthild of Magdeburg

“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 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 is nothing more than thought. It is a yearning of the heart.

— Sophy Burnham

It is necessary to rouse the heart to pray, otherwise it will become quite dry. The attributes of prayer must be: love of God,…

— John of Kronstadt

Prayer delights God's ear; it melts His heart; and opens His hand. God cannot deny a praying soul.

— Thomas Watson

Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God.

— John Buchan

Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled with God.

— John Bunyan

For me, prayer is a surge of the heart; it is a simple look turned toward heaven, it is a cry of recognition and…

— Anonymous