Quotes About Reflection

Fasting and prayer are common injunctions in my religion.

We must resist wandering thoughts in prayer. Raising our hands reminds us that we need to raise up our minds to God, setting aside all irrelevant thoughts.

I do believe in the power of prayer.

What are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Both for themselves and those who call them friend?

I find that it takes a lot of years of living, and many more of reckoning, to come up with one worthwhile paragraph. And when a deadline looms, prayer doesnt hurt, either.

I have morning prayers and a nighttime reflection. I also read the Bible daily.

I'm folding up my little dreams Within my heart tonight, And praying I may soon forget The torture of their sight.

Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.

I first began to read religious books at school, and especially the Bible, when I was eleven years old; and almost immediately commenced a habit of secret prayer.

Prayer turns theology into experience.

In saying my prayers, I discovered the voice of an innermost self, the raw nerve of my identity.

Pray with your intelligence. Bring things to God that you have thought out and think them out again with Him. That is the secret of good judgment.

Being a Christian doesn't mean I don't get stressed or upset when training doesn't go well. But even if I have those reactions, I think, 'I should pray about this.'

I still say the Lord's Prayer every day. It covers a lot of ground in our relation to the world.

Prayers are to men as dolls are to children. They are not without use and comfort, but it is not easy to take them very seriously.

The more we can give in our silent prayer, the more we can give in our active life.

Repeatedly place your pet opinions and prejudices before God. He will surprise you by showing you that the best of them need refining and some the purification of destruction.

All our blasphemies are only little prayers.

Prayer draws us near to our own souls.

A life of prayer is a life whose litanies are ever fresh acts of self-devoting love.

The trouble with our praying is, we just do it as a means of last resort.

The Lord speaks to us through the Scriptures and in our prayer. Let us learn to keep silence before him, as we meditate upon the Gospel.

In my prayers I never said I needed a home. I said I wanted a sanctuary.

A picture is like a prayer.