Centering Prayer Quotes

“Centering Prayer is an opening, a response, a putting aside of all the debris that stands in the way of our being totally present to the present Lord, so that He can be present to us. It is a laying aside of thoughts, so that the heart can attend immediately to Him. All prayer is a response. The Lord first knocks, beckons, calls to us.”
― Basil Pennington, Centering Prayer: Renewing an Ancient Christian Prayer Form

“We ought not to READ the scriptures, but listen to them, for our Beloved is present and speaks to us through them. (vs. it being like a love letter sent to us from afar).”
― Basil Pennington, Centering Prayer: Renewing an Ancient Christian Prayer Form