Quotes About Reflection

Saying one's prayers isn't exactly the same thing as praying.

I am in the House of Mercy, and my heart is a place of prayer.

I'll tell you what's more important than all the commentaries in your library: prayer.

Prayer is like a great love. When you start dating the silence can be awkward, but as you grow to know each other you can sit in silence for hours and just being with each other is a great comfort.

I prefer a kind of sweet, deep, rich prayer in which a person goes in and says, Take me down deep into the reason you gave me life. Take me down deep. It silences the chaos in me.

Remember, Christ's scholars must study upon their knees.

My father was an Episcopalian minister, and I've always been comforted by the power of prayer.

Just as you wouldn't leave the house without taking a shower, you shouldn't start the day without at least 10 minutes of sacred practice: prayer, meditation, inspirational reading.

In vocal prayer we speak to God; in mental prayer he speaks to us. It is then that God pours Himself into us.

If your life is rushing in many directions at once, you are incapable of the kind of deep, unhurried prayer that is vital to the Christian walk.

Lead us in a few words of silent prayer.

A day without morning and evening prayers and personal intercessions is actually a day without meaning or importance.

The only humility that is really ours is not that which we try to show before God in prayer, but that which we carry with us in our daily conduct.

Nothing is more vital than prayer in Christian existence, and few things are more vulnerable to neglect.

Oh, I wish that God had not given me what I prayed for! It was not so good as I thought.

To pray well is the better half of study.

perhaps there's no sharper spur to meditation than answered prayer.

Ein einziger dankbarer Gedanke gen Himmel ist das vollkommenste Gebet. One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer.

Prayer is a thought, a belief, a feeling, arising within the mind of the one praying.

Everything we do, our entire interior monologue, is prayer.

What is the use of praying if at the very moment of prayer, we have so little confidence in God that we are busy planning our own kind of answer to our prayer?

This is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story - and perhaps into a prayer.

I believe that ultimately it all comes down to whether we seek conscious contact with God on a daily basis through prayer and meditation.

Live a life of prayer, giving glory to God and continually listening for His guidance.