Quotes About Reflection

When the fire of prayer goes out, the barrenness of busyness takes over.

I have never separated the writing of poetry from prayer. I have grown up believing it is a vocation, a religious vocation.

The primary purpose of prayer is not to get something, but to know Someone.

Prayer is the oxygen of the soul.

Of all the duties enjoined by Christianity none is more essential and yet more neglected than prayer.

Prayer is the life of the soul.

God speaks in the silence of the heart, and we listen. And then we speak to God from the fullness of our heart, and God listens. And this listening and this speaking is what prayer is meant to be.

I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.

No man is greater than his prayer life.

Pray inwardly, even if you do not enjoy it. It does good, though you feel nothing. Yes, even though you think you are doing nothing.

Prayer can never be in excess.

To pray is to listen, to move through my own chattering to God, to that place where I can be silent and listen to what God may have to say.

And help us, this and every day, to live more nearly as we pray.

If you want to determine if your thoughts are from the enemy or from God, ask yourself, 'Are these thoughts I'd choose to have?

What does it say about our churches today that God birthed the church in a prayer meeting, and prayer meetings today are almost extinct?

Prayer is not about changing God, but being willing to let God change us.

If we would talk less and pray more about them, things would be better than they are in the world: at least, we should be better enabled to bear them.

When you pray be sure that you listen as well as talk. You have things you want to say to God but He also has things He wants to say to you.

The prayer of one who does not consider himself a sinner is not accepted by the Lord.

Prayer and praise are the oars by which a man may row his boat into the deep waters of the knowledge of Christ.

The thermometer of a church is its prayer meeting.

It isn't a coincidence that prayer was commanded right after the year of sadness. The prayer was the greatest comfort.

He who is too busy to pray will be too busy to live a holy life. Satan had rather we let the grass grow on the path to our prayer chamber than anything else.

Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.