Billy Graham Quotes

Take prayer with you wherever you go. Say it anytime, and then focus your mind and heart on God.

Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.

All our prayers are addressed in the handwriting of the heart.

When you recognize the festive and the still moments as moments of prayer, then you gradually realize that to pray is to live.

Let us pray, and as we pray, let us make room for Jesus in our hearts.

One way to recollect the mind easily in the time of prayer, and preserve it more in tranquillity, is not to let it wander too far at other times. You should keep it strictly in the presence of God; and being accustomed to think of Him often, you will find it easy to keep your mind calm in the time of prayer, or at least to recall it from its wanderings.

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

When I wake up, I immediately pray. When I go to sleep, I pray. Honestly, a prayer every second, in every breath. I suggest the whole world to do it. Prayer is amazing.

Prayer is - not just bowing your head a few times a day, it pervades all of life.

I hang out with my guru in my heart. And I love every thing in the universe. That's all I do all day.

This is love: the flowering of love is meditation.

I write in my study, where I also have my prayer altar. I believe that keeps me focused and gives me positive energy and reminds me that I'm merely the instrument of greater creative forces.

When you pray, rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart.

Never believe that true prayer consists in mere babbling, reciting so many psalms and vigils, saying your beads while you allow your thoughts to roam.

Silence is the pause in me when I am near to God.

There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.

There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.

I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness.

My day starts with the chanting of Gayatri Mantra and Om Namah Shivay. I chant them every time I bowl.

The first thing I do when I get up is pray and meditate to center myself for the day ahead. I ask for inspiration in my creative endeavors, guidance in my relationships and patience in my journey. It's a great way to get focused for the day.

I know that I pray a lot, and I take time for myself.

Think of God more often than thou breathest.

There is so much noise in the world! May we learn to be silent in our hearts and before God.

Fasting detaches you from this world. Prayer reattaches you to the next world.

What signifies the sound of words in prayer without the affection of the heart, and a sedulous application of the proper means that may naturally lead us to such an end?