James D. Houston Quotes

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

Praying doesn't mean repeating a prayer.

People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.

By turning your eyes on God in meditation, your whole soul will be filled with God. Begin all your prayers in the presence of God.

Whatever it is that can help to bring God close is something to be revered.

Prayer is a thought, a belief, a feeling, arising within the mind of the one praying.

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

Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.

Prayer is where the action is.

Much prayer, but no piety.

Prayer is so complicated.

I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call and invite God and his angels thither.

Nature best teaches how to pray, and how to reverence all the gifts the Almighty has given us. She is like a vast outspread handkerchief, embroidered with God's eternal name, on which we may dry alike our tears of sorrow and of joy; she turns weeping into ecstasy, and fills our hearts with speechless, quiet reverence and resignation.

I never go to temples, but when I see a child, I see God in them.

The thing that brings people to wail at a wall, or face Mecca, or to go to church, is a search for that feeling of purity.

My desk drawer is filled with all kinds of prayers.

Do I pray? Yes. Prayer is very important to me.

To me, religion is an agreement between a group of people about what God is. Spirituality is a one-on-one relationship.

I pray as much as possible.

Religion is more like response to a friend than it is like obedience to an expert.

Prayer: the key of the day and the lock of the night.

Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.

Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.

Spirituality - prayer - is a big part of my life.

Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.