Quotes About Reflection

Days of trouble must be days of prayer.

A lot of the shadow self is the home of poetry, story, prayer. My deepest understandings are often released from the part of me of which I am least aware most of the time.

Prayers out of, very often, not the most religious part of me, but the most anxious part of me, the most desperately loving, fearing part of me.

Begin your day with prayer, and make it so soulful that it may remain with you until the evening.

Prayer is a serious thing. We may be taken at our words.

If your prayer is selfish, the answer will be something that will rebuke your selfishness. You may not recognize it as having come at all, but it is sure to be there.

With every pill we have prescribed for us we should also be given a creative prayer, a suggested way to correct our destructive patterns of thought.

All the troubles of life come upon us because we refuse to sit quietly for a while each day in our rooms.

The Secret of Praying is Praying in Secret. The secret place of prayer calls for every faculty of mind and heart.

Some people pray just to pray and some people pray to know God.

Our true character comes out in the way we pray.

Communicating our questions, hopes, and fears in prayer makes them-even to ourselves-more open and clear.

Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.

Poetry to me is prayer.

The stillness in art characterizes prayer, and the eye of the storm.

The world was made partly that there may be prayer; partly that our prayers might be answered.

Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.

Prayer and action...can never be seen as contradictory or mutually exclusive. Prayer without action grows into powerless pietism, and action without prayer degenerates into questionable manipulation.

Prayer is first of all listening to God. It's openness. God is always speaking; he's always doing something.

Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.

We must reflect the light of Christ through lives of prayer and joyful service to others.

Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.

Prayer is the acid test of devotion.

I must exchange whispers with God before shouts with the world.