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  • The Protestant wing of the western church, which is a tiny percentage of the Body of Christ, is nearly completely (98%) unaware that the Holy Spirit is restoring contemplative prayer-center stage-to the church The Holy Spirit is restoring this precious jewel (contemplative prayer) to the body of Christ. This is the God ordained means of attaining the fullness of God.

    Prayer   Mean   Jewels  
  • If you surrender yourself, and do not rush, but meditate on the Word of God, you will find prayer forming in your heart. It is a prayer inspired by the Holy Spirit, a prayer that God will be pleased to hear.

    God   Religious   Prayer  
    John R. Rice (2000). “Prayer: Asking and Receiving”, p.262, Sword of the Lord Publishers
  • We should all without shame enrol in the school of contemplative prayer.

    Prayer   School   Shame  
  • Other forms of relating to God that have unique value in connecting us to Him include contemplative prayer and centering prayer.

    Larry Crabb, Lawrence J. Crabb (2007). “The Papa Prayer: The Prayer You've Never Prayed”, p.27, Thomas Nelson Inc
  • They were creating a program on contemplative prayer called Be Still. They asked me to be a part of this project that was designed to help Americans see the importance of spending time before God in stillness. I knew immediately that God wanted me to be a part of the project.

    Priscilla Shirer (2007). “Discerning the Voice of God: How to Recognize When God Speaks”, p.81, Moody Publishers
  • It is to this silence [contemplative prayer] that we all are called.

  • Every one should find some suitable time, day or night, to sink into his depths, each according to his own fashion. Not every one is able to engage in contemplative prayer.

    Fashion   Prayer   Night  
  • The first step in faith is to stop thinking about God at the time of prayer.-

    Brennan Manning (2011). “The Signature of Jesus”, p.198, Multnomah
  • Virtues are formed by prayer. Prayer preserves temperance. Prayer suppresses anger. Prayer prevents emotions of pride and envy. Prayer draws into the soul the Holy Spirit, and raises man to Heaven.

    Prayer   Pride   Men  
  • There's no Biblical definition of contemplative prayer

  • Contemplative prayer [oración mental] in my opinion is nothing else than a close sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone with him who we know loves us.

    Prayer   Mean   Opinion  
  • This mystical stream [contemplative prayer] is the Western bridge to Far Eastern spirituality.

  • Another of the things I started to do during this time was what Buddhists normally call "meditation" or, in Christian terms, "contemplative prayer". It began to supersede deipnosophy as my favorite hobby.

    "Beyond peace and quiet" by Sara Maitland, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2008.
  • The only thing to seek in contemplative prayer is God; and we seek Him successfully when we realize that we cannot find Him unless He shows Himself to us, and yet at the same time that He would not have inspired us to seek Him unless we had already found Him.

    Thomas Merton (2011). “Thoughts In Solitude”, p.61, Macmillan
  • In contemplative prayer we seek to become the person we are called to be, not by thinking of God, but by being with God. Simply to be with God is to be drawn into being the person God calls us to be

    God   Religious   Prayer  
  • 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, desire, and action, one that frees the mind from habitual prejudices and appetites, and allows it to dwell in the gratuity and glory of all things. As an old monk on Mount Athos once told me, contemplative prayer is the art of seeing reality as it truly is; and, if one has not yet acquired the ability to see God in all things, one should not imagine that one will be able to see God in himself.

    Art   Prayer   Simple  
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