Quotes About Reflection

It is good to pray for the repair of mistakes, but praying earlier would keep us from making so many. When puzzled, go to prayer and listen.

May our prayers today, and every day, be from our hearts and with the focus of our whole being.

Memory, so complete and clear or so evasive, has to be ended, has to be put aside, as if one were leaving a chapel and bringing the prayer to an end in one's head.

The purpose of daily prayer is the cultivation of a sense of the sacred. Sacred energy renews us.

Every single emotion you have should be processed in prayer.

Let us pray, and as we pray, let us make room for Jesus in our hearts.

Nymph, in thy orisons be all my sins remembered!

Some of us pray demands. Some of us pray complaints. Some of us pray knowing, and some of us pray not knowing. But prayer is the attitude that you hold in your heart.

It is vain to ask of the gods what man is capable of supplying for himself.

It is by no haphazard chance that in every age men have risen early to pray. The first thing that marks decline in spiritual life is our relationship to the early morning.

Oh, will you pray? Stop now and pray, lest desire turn to feeling and feeling evaporate.

In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a unique perspective on the world, a member of a class of one.

I sit beside my lonely fire and pray for wisdom yet: for calmness to remember or courage to forget.

The people who pretend that dying is rather like strolling into the next room always leave me unconvinced. Death, like birth, must be a tremendous event.

I don't know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention.

Stories,' the green-eyed Sigrid said, unperturbed, 'are like prayers. It does not matter when you begin, or when you end, only that you bend a knee and say the words.

All our prayers are addressed in the handwriting of the heart.

Prayer is more than words. It's listening, seeing and feeling.

Those that forget to attend God with their praises may perhaps be compelled to attend him with their prayers.

Life and death are but phases of the same thing, the reverse and obverse of the same coin. Death is as necessary for man's growth as life itself.

For me writing has always felt like praying even when I wasn't writing prayers.

We ought not speak too long about God with our minds before we turn and speak to God from our heart. We must stir a lot of prayer into the stew of our theology.

To pray well one must pray much.

Some have been to the mountain. I have been to my knees by the side of my bed.