Prayer Beads Quotes

• Never believe that true prayer consists in mere babbling, reciting so many psalms and vigils, saying your beads while you allow your thoughts to roam.

  Johannes Tauler

  Prayer, Believe, Psalms

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• There is a value in repetition. When we repeat certain phrases and even actions, like fingering prayer beads, we create a quiet rhythm within our spirits. The beating of our heart is a repetition as is the rhythm of our breathing. All of life has its rhythms, and the repetition of familiar prayers can bring our interior spirits into harmony with the Divine Heartbeat and the breathing of the Divine Christ.

  Stephen J. Binz

  Prayer, Heart, Breathing

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• Chanting is no more holy than listening to the murmur of a stream, counting prayer beads no more sacred than simply breathing. . . . If you wish to attain oneness with the Tao, don't get caught up in spiritual superficialities.

  Laozi

  Spiritual, Prayer, Breathing

  Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

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• People count with self-satisfaction the number of times they have recited the name of God on their prayer beads, but they keep no beads for reckoning the number of idle words they speak.

  Al-Ghazali

  Wisdom, Prayer, Islamic

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• To sweat is to pray, to make an offering of your innermost self. Sweat is holy water, prayer beads, pearls of liquid that release your past. Sweat is an ancient and universal form of self healing, whether done in the gym, the sauna, or the sweat lodge. I do it on the dance floor. The more you dance, the more you sweat. The more you sweat, the more you pray. The more you pray, the closer you come to ecstasy.

  Gabrielle

  Prayer, Healing, Past

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• To sweat is to pray, to make an offering of your innermost self. Sweat
  is holy water, prayer beads, pearls of liquid that release your past.
  The more you dance... the more you sweat, the more you pray. The more
  you pray, the closer you are to ecstasy.

  Gabrielle Roth

  Prayer, Past, Offering

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