Quotes About Reflection

Jesus himself talked about prayer and meditation. Anything that brings you closer to the Lord, what's wrong with that?

Prayer is the supreme instance of the hidden character of the Christian life.

Lord, lord, lord. Protect me from the consequences of the above prayer.

We can learn more in an hour praying, when praying indeed, than from many hours of rigorous study.

Unless inside, where no one sees, our soul is kneelling, too, a prayer is not so likely to get through.

Asking in prayer helps you to see your problem in the light of God's power.

Engagements - they are like a prayer before eating, best quick.

The Lord is my shepherdI shall not want him for longHe maketh me to lie down in green pasturesand there are no green pasturesHe leadeth me beside still watersand still waters run deep

Even when she was speaking, her soul was in prayer reposing on an unseen support.

The fewer the words the better the prayer.

In prayer we call ourselves 'worms of the dust' but it is only on a sort of tacit understanding that the remark shall not be taken at par.

Prayer does not change God but it changes him who prays.

He that will learn to pray let him to sea.

Tomorrow I plan to work work from early until late. In fact I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer.

I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for the day.

Now I am past all comforts here but prayer.

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.

We ignorant of ourselves beg often our own harms which the wise powers deny us for our good.

Teach me O God not to torture myself not to make a martyr out of myself through stifling reflection but rather teach me to breathe deeply in faith.

Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view.

I prayed for someone to love me as much as I love you. Eventually I came to see that that "someone" was me.

At the end of the day what makes a difference was our time with Him at the beginning of the day!

Only man among living things says prayers. Or needs to.

Do not work so hard for Christ that you have no strength to pray for prayer requires strength.