Quotes About Reflection

O God, thy sea is so great and my boat is so small.

Prayer becomes more meaningful as we counsel with the Lord in all of our doings, as we express heartfelt gratitude, and as we pray for others.

I'm not very good at praying, but what I experience when I'm writing a poem is close to prayer.

Anything, and I mean anything, becomes a blessing if it drives us to prayer.

Prayer means talking over with Jesus everything that happens from morning until night.

I never get out of bed in the morning without having communion with God in the Spirit.

The entire day receives order and discipline when it acquires unity. This unity must be sought and found in morning prayer. The morning prayer determines the day.

Prayer is the only way to amend your life: and without prayer, it will never be mended.

Reading the morning newspaper is the realist's morning prayer.

The trouble with nearly everybody who prays is that he says 'Amen' and runs away before God has a chance to reply. Listening to God is far more important than giving Him our ideas.

Selfishness is never so exquisitely selfish as when it is on its knees. ... Self turns what would otherwise be a pure and powerful prayer into a weak and ineffective one.

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.

In our prayers, we talk to God, in our Bible study, God talks to us, and we had better let God do most of the talking.

A minister may fill his pews, his communion roll, the mouths of the public, but what that minister is on his knees in secret before God Almighty, that he is and no more.

Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.

Perhaps one of the greatest rewards of meditation and prayer is the sense of belonging that comes to us.

Good poetry is like effective prayer, it feeds the human spirit, it nourishes, it puts us in touch with forces far greater than ourselves

The Lord's Prayer may be committed to memory quickly, but it is slowly learnt by heart.

Three principles of prayer: 1. Keep it honest. 2. Keep it simple. 3. Keep it up.

Prayer purifies us, reading instructs us. Both are good when both are possible. Otherwise, prayer is better than reading.

Are you living for the things you are praying for?

I have been benefited by praying for others; for by making an errand to God for them I have gotten something for myself.

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.

We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another.