Quotes About Solitude

We were the only humans - the only forms of life, in fact - for hundreds of miles in each direction, unreaching and unreachable as we rocketed back towards civilisation.

We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength.

The great battles, the battles that decide our destiny and the destiny of generations yet unborn, are not fought on public platforms, but in the lonely hours of the night and in moments of agony.

To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.

The secret of praying is praying in secret.

If you have ever prayed in the dawn you will ask yourself why you were so foolish as not to do it always: it is difficult to get into communion with God in the midst of the hurly-burly of the day.

Who one believes God to be is most accurately revealed not in any credo but in the way one speaks to God when no one else is listening.

The lover of silence draws close to God. He talks to Him in secret and God enlightens him.

True prayer is a lonely business.

Prayer is not learned in a classroom but in the closet.

This perpetual hurry of business and company ruins me in soul if not in body. More solitude and earlier hours!

I read a poem every night, as others read a prayer.

The heart which has no agenda but God's is the heart at leisure from itself. Its emptiness is filled with the Love of God. Its solitude can be turned into prayer.

All the troubles of life come upon us because we refuse to sit quietly for a while each day in our rooms.

The Secret of Praying is Praying in Secret. The secret place of prayer calls for every faculty of mind and heart.

I must exchange whispers with God before shouts with the world.

The secret prayer chamber is a bloody battleground. Here violent and decisive battles are fought out. Here the fate of souls for time and eternity is determined, in quietude and solitude.

I sit beside my lonely fire and pray for wisdom yet: for calmness to remember or courage to forget.

Mankind have such a deep stake in inward illumination, that there is much to be said by the hermit or monk in defence of his life of thought and prayer.

We are to be shut out from men, and shut in with God.

To be alone by being part of the universe-fitting in completely to an environment of woods and silence and peace. Everything you do becomes a unity and a prayer. Unity within and without.

when I am alone in the forest I always say my prayers; and that occasional solitary communion with God is surely the only true religion for intelligent beings.

Could I find a place to be alone with heaven, I would speak my heart out heaven is my need.

Silence was the first prayer I learned to trust.