Quotes About Reflection

Here are the two best prayers I know: 'Help me, help me, help me' and 'Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Art and prayer are the only decent ejaculations of the soul.

Prayer, even more than eating or sleeping, is not a luxury but a necessity, and we are only fully human when we remember this and arrange our life accordingly.

Thank God for unanswered prayers.

The more deeply we grow into the psalms and the more often we pray them as our own, the more simple and rich will our prayer become.

When we become too glib in prayer we are most surely talking to ourselves.

Every nerve in my body is so vacant and numb/I can't even remember what it was I came here to get away from/Don't even hear a murmur of a prayer/It's not dark yet, but it's getting there.

If we then let the words of Christ abide in us, they will stir us up in prayer.

A man is powerful on his knees.

We must be still before God.

Prayer shouldn't be casual or sporadic, dictated only by the needs of the moment. Prayer should be as much a part of our lives as breathing.

Much more is accomplished by a single word of the Our Father said, now and then, from our heart, than by the whole prayer repeated many times in haste and without attention.

If you ever feel distant, never mistake who has drifted away. Prayer will close this gap.

Prayer is not just something on our to-do list; it's the breath of our soul.

I have so much to do that I spend several hours in prayer before I am able to do it.

Why do you pray if you doubt you are heard?

Prayer is an attitude of the heart.

As pain tells us of the need for healing, worry tells us of the need for prayer.

Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy.

It's not my business to try and make God think like me... but to try, in prayer and penitence, to think like God.

A prayer makes sense only if it is lived.

Poetry and prayer are very similar.

It is good for us to keep some account of our prayers, that we may not unsay them in our practice.

I've practiced centering prayer. I've contemplatively prayed. I've prayed liturgically... I've benefited from each, and I still do. In ways you'll see, elements of each style are still with me.