Quotes About Reflection

If I could have one prayer answered, I would pray for patience. I move so fast sometimes. I try to slow down.

Our prayers must spring from the indigenous soil of our own personal confrontation with the Spirit of God in our lives.

I'm afraid I did not pray hard enough last night.

Those whose lives were lost on September 11 will remain in our thoughts and prayers forever.

There is no music like a little river's . . . It takes the mind out-of-doors . . . and . . . it quiets a man down like saying his prayers.

A poem is a hand, a hook, a prayer. It is a soul in action.

The real victory in all service is won in secret beforehand by prayer.

If we really want to achieve true prayer, we must turn our backs upon everything temporal, everything external, everything that is not divine.

Leadership requires vision, and whence will vision come except from hours spent in the presence of God in humble and fervent prayer?

It is a tremendously hard thing to pray aright, yea, it is verily the science of all sciences.

Use "breath prayers" throughout the day, as many Christians have done for centuries. You choose a brief sentence or a simple phrase that can be repeated to Jesus in one breath: "You are with me."

Prayer is in all things, in all gestures.

Music is a form of prayer.

Worship seals all prayers at the front and at the back. Always pray with praise beginning and praise ending.

The Christian will find his parentheses for prayer even in the busiest hours of life.

I forget how good I've got it sometimes, how lucky I am just to be alive. And I pass good prayer to the man upstairs just to thank him like I should. Yeah you know, I get it... I've got it good.

The life of a good man is a continual prayer.

I would like to explain that I consider prayer above all an act of gratitude for existence.

I began to see my life and each breath I am given as a living prayer to God and a way to pray for others for our world.

Prayer is asking for guidance. Meditation is listening to it.

Purity is the fruit of prayer.

Mankind have such a deep stake in inward illumination, that there is much to be said by the hermit or monk in defence of his life of thought and prayer.

Once upon hearing a friend's bashing comment I said, "Did you reach that conclusion on your own, or did it come through prayer?"

A day hemmed in prayer is less likely to unravel.