Quotes About Reflection

One should never initiate anything that he cannot saturate with prayer.

Prayer is the breath of life to our soul; holiness is impossible without it

The richness of God's Word ought to determine our prayer, not the poverty of our heart.

You have to listen to the one who calls you beloved. That has to be affirmed over and over again. That is prayer - listening to the voice of the one who calls you "the beloved."

Give yourselves to prayer and the ministry of the Word. If you do not pray, God will probably lay you aside from your ministry, as He did me, to teach you to pray.

In the end, the number of prayers we say may contribute to our happiness, but the number of prayers we answer may be of even greater importance.

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.

Prayer is listening as well as speaking, receiving as well as asking; and its deepest mood is friendship held in reverence. So the daily prayer should end as it begins - in adoration.

The love ofChrist is my prayer-book

Prayer does not change God, it changes us. It deepens insight, increases intuitive perception, expands consciousness. It transforms personality.

In vocal prayer we go to God on foot. In meditation we go to God on horseback. In contemplation we go to God in a jet.

You will never enjoy the sweetness of a quiet prayer unless you shut your mind to all worldly desires and temporal affairs.

Intercessory prayer is the purifying bath into which the individual and the community must enter every day.

Hurry is the death of Prayer.

There should be a parallel between our supplications and our thanksgivings. We ought not to leap in prayer, and limp in praise.

God's voice is still and quiet and easily buried under an avalanche of clamour.

Prayer is a concentration of positive thoughts.

What causes us to think of prayer as the last option rather than the first? I can think of two reasons: feelings of independence and feelings of insignificance.

In these days there is no time to pray; but without time, and a lot of it, we shall never learn to pray.

That which begins not with prayer, seldom winds up with comfort.

In these times of suffering prayer is of even more help.

Prayer is the fruit of joy and thankfulness.

Prayer is no substitute for work; equally true is it that work is no substitute for prayer.