Quotes About Introspection

In the rush and noise of life, as you have intervals, step home within yourselves and be still. Wait upon God, and feel His good presence; this will carry you evenly through your day's business.

No man - I don't care how colossal his intellect - No man is greater than his prayer life.

What is the cause of most backslidings? I believe, as a general rule, one of the chief causes is neglect of private prayer.

The airy sky has taken its place leaning against the wall. It is like a prayer to what is empty And what is empty turns its face to us and whispers: 'I am not empty, I am open'.

Prayer does not change God; it changes me.

This perpetual hurry of business and company ruins me in soul if not in body. More solitude and earlier hours!

I am very defective in all duties... In prayer I wander and am formal... I soon tire; devotion languishes; and I do not walk with God.

God's voice is still and quiet and easily buried under an avalanche of clamour.

In these days there is no time to pray; but without time, and a lot of it, we shall never learn to pray.

It is not surprising that prayer malfunctions when we try to make it a domestic intercom to call upstairs for more comforts in the den.

When we become too glib in prayer we are most surely talking to ourselves.

Waiting prayer, or waiting on the Lord, is the silent surrendering of the soul to God. It is wordless worship. It is seeking God not from without but from within. It is to seek God in your heart.

Every nerve in my body is so vacant and numb/I can't even remember what it was I came here to get away from/Don't even hear a murmur of a prayer/It's not dark yet, but it's getting there.

Prayer is an attitude of the heart.

If your prayer is selfish, the answer will be something that will rebuke your selfishness. You may not recognize it as having come at all, but it is sure to be there.

All the troubles of life come upon us because we refuse to sit quietly for a while each day in our rooms.

Communicating our questions, hopes, and fears in prayer makes them-even to ourselves-more open and clear.

Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.

Prayer in private results in boldness in public.

My greatest weapon is mute prayer.

The prayer preceding all prayers is 'May it be the real I who speaks. May it be the real Thou that I speak to.'

Prayer is the inheritance we receive and the legacy we leave.

Prayer is the thermometer of grace.

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.