Quotes About Reflection

I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite.

The stillness of prayer is the most essential condition for fruitful action. Before all else, the disciple kneels down.

The definition of prayer is paying careful and concentrated attention to something other than your own constructions.

Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.

To pray is no small thing. It is nothing less than a sacred pilgrimage into the heart of the whole world.

Prayer: the key of the day and the lock of the night.

When you sing, you pray twice.

Prayer might not change things, but it will change my perspective of things. Prayer might not change the past, but inevitably, it changes the present.

Prayer is a shield to the soul

Faith induces one to pray.Prayer purifies the heart.In the purified heart is reflected the light of Lord.When the Light sighns the mortal becomes immortal.

Your prayer for someone may or may not change them, but it always changes YOU.

If man is man and God is God, to live without prayer is not merely an awful thing: it is an infinitely foolish thing.

Prayer need not be a burdensome duty. It is meant to be a joyful and creative privilege.

In the rush and noise of life, as you have intervals, step home within yourselves and be still. Wait upon God, and feel His good presence; this will carry you evenly through your day's business.

Prayer is especially crucial when you come to a place in your study where you are stuck and confused.

I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some sort of Buddhist. But the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer.

Go where your best prayers take you.

Day by day, dear Lord, of thee three things I pray: to see thee more clearly, love thee more dearly, follow thee more nearly, day by day.

No man - I don't care how colossal his intellect - No man is greater than his prayer life.

No learning can make up for the failure to pray. No earnestness, no diligence, no study, no gifts will supply its lack.

I believe that there is no prayer without fasting, and there is no real fast without prayer.

The efficacy of a prayer depends not on the words but on the sincerity of intention.

I find a great deal of comfort and care in my faith and prayer. I'd sooner do without air than prayer.

Seek in reading and thou shalt find in meditation; knock in prayer and it shall be opened in contemplation.