Contemplative Quote by Thomas Merton

“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

In contemplative prayer we seek to become the person we are called to be, not by thinking of God, but by being with God.…

— John Main

Prayer is not so much a way to find God as a way of resting in him...who loves us, who is near to us...

— Thomas Merton

This is the path of prayer-contemplative prayer, that is, as distinct from simple prayers of supplication and thanksgiving-which is a specific discipline of thought,…

— Anonymous

“Contemplative prayer is natural, unprogrammed; it is perpetual openness to God, so that in the openness his concerns can flow in and out of…

— Ray Simpson

In books we seek God; in prayer we find him. Prayer is the key which opens God's heart.

— Pio of Pietrelcina

“My prayer is to seek, find and serve God.”

— Gift Gugu Mona

If you begin to live life looking for the God that is all around you, every moment becomes a prayer.

— Joseph Frank Bianco

I do not believe that one can earnestly seek and find the priceless treasure of God's call without a devout prayer life. That is…

— Ravi Zacharias

We need prayer to understand God's love for us. If we really mean to pray and want to pray we must be ready to…

— Mother Teresa

The kind of prayer I am talking about is a detached kind of prayer in which you are not looking for anything, just putting…

— Joseph Girzone

Prayer is looking out from a different set of eyes, which are not comparing, competing, judging, labeling or analyzing, but receiving the moment in…

— Richard Rohr