Connecting with the Divine Quotes

What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer.

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

Prayer keeps me centered.

If there's a God, I want to see Him. It's pointless to believe in something without proof, and Krishna consciousness and meditation are methods where you can actually obtain God perception. In that way you can see, hear and play with God. Perhaps this may sound weird, but God is really there next to you.

Prayer is the great gift which our Eternal Father has given us by which we may approach Him and speak with Him in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Be prayerful. You cannot make it alone. You cannot reach your potential alone. You need the help of the Lord.

If I've learned anything about prayer, it's that desperation drives discipline.

Sometimes we think we are too busy to pray. That is a great mistake, for praying is a saving of time.

We should daily feel a deeper union with Life, a greater sense of that Indwelling God - the God of the seen and of the unseen - within us.

Resort to sermons, but to prayers most: Praying's the end of preaching.

. . . in the spiritual life you must practice. And the only way to practice is by trying to solve your problems with prayer. This develops your spiritual power and it also trains you to use that spiritual power in the most effective way.

Find god - he isn't hiding from you, you're hiding from him.

Before entering the seminary, I had not encountered the life-changing potential of reading as a source of meaning, as a way of ordering one's inner life, and being rooted in the world.

When I'm off the road, my husband and I recharge our batteries. It's a day of deep rest and connection with the spiritual, and that can be anything - going for a walk in nature, being in silence, burning incense.

Awareness of the inner body is consciousness remembering its origin and returning to the Source.

There were now and then, though rarely, the hours that brought the welcome shock, pulled down the walls and brought me back again from my wanderings to the living heart of the world. Sadly and yet deeply moved, I set myself to recall the last of these experiences. It was at a concert of lovely old music. After two of three notes of the piano the door was opened of a sudden to the other world. I sped through heaven and saw God at work. I suffered holy pains. I dropped all my defenses and was afraid of nothing in the world. I accepted all things and to all things I gave up my heart.

My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.

We pray because our life comes from God and we yield it back in prayer. Prayer is a great antidote to the illusion that we are self-made.

For me, spiritual means love in action. So if you are working for love, then you are a spiritual person.

When we pray, we bring G-d into the world

Singing in church is a very different approach to music. It's very much about transcending the idea of self. It's about finding something greater that connects all of us. Gospel music is about tapping into that.

For those who never pray, maybe now you will. For those of us who attempt to pray, maybe we can pray more.

We approach the divine by enlarging our souls and lighting up our brains.

When we love, we see the infinite in the finite. We find the Creator in the creation.

Prayer is seeing His greatness to the extent we can receive it.

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