Sentences with phrase «prayer and meditation cease»

In Revelations, when the sun and moon fail to give their light, it far more likely to mean that prayer and meditation cease to provide a link to God anymore, rather than that the actual sun and moon are darkened.

Not exact matches

From these he put together a theory of contemplative prayer: That as person becomes increasingly contemplative in his prayer, he will move from «meditation» (thinking about or imagining Our Lord, for example) to a place where meditation, affections, and thinking ceases and are replaced by what seems to be an experience of nothing, but is closer union with God.
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