Communion with the Divine Quotes

I've seen a lot of miracles, and I have experienced a lot of things with Jesus, but nothing I have ever experienced in my corporate community life with other believers can compare with just me and Him in my kitchen early in the morning before the sun comes up.

Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart. It is like a bird that has blundered down the flue and is caught indoors and flutters at the windowpanes. It is like standing a long time on a cold day, knocking at a shut door.

The meaning of prayer is that I want to evoke that Divinity within me.

Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God.

Union with God is really possible. Unity with God I presume, is what is meant by Heaven, but that too is available in this life for the humble of heart.

Through prayer we speak to God. In meditation, God speaks to us.

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 happy company with God.

A man prayed, and at first he thought that prayer was talking. But he became more and more quiet until in the end he realized prayer is listening.

Everything starts with prayer. Love to pray-feel the need to pray often during the day and take the trouble to pray. If you want to pray better, you must pray more. The more you pray, the easier it becomes. Perfect prayer does not consist of many words but in the fervor of the desire which raises the heart to Jesus.

Prayer is not a discourse. It is a form of life, the life with God. That is why it is not confined to the moment of verbal statement.

Spiritual power comes out of inward fellowship with God and abandonment to his purposes.

The first rule for prayer, the most important first step, is not about how to do it, but to just do it; not to perfect and complete it but to begin it. Once the car is moving, it's easy to steer it in the right direction, but it's much harder to start it up when it's stalled. And prayer is stalled in our world.

We think of prayer as a preparation for work, or a calm after having done work, whereas prayer is the essential work.

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

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

Acquaint thyself with God.

Trying to describe what I do in prayer would be like telling the world how I make love to my wife.

Poetry and prayer are very similar.

For what is prayer but the expansion of your self into the living ether?

Prayer is an impossibility without a living faith in the presence of God within.

In meditative prayer, one thinks and speaks not only with the mind and lips, but in a certain sense with one's whole being... All good meditative prayer is a conversation of our entire self to God.

Is not prayer a study of truth, a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

And then, in that regal silence, finally - I began to meditate on (and with) God.