Quotes About Introspection

Just as you wouldn't leave the house without taking a shower, you shouldn't start the day without at least 10 minutes of sacred practice: prayer, meditation, inspirational reading.

The only humility that is really ours is not that which we try to show before God in prayer, but that which we carry with us in our daily conduct.

We wake, if ever at all, to mystery.

Everything we do, our entire interior monologue, is prayer.

When we pray, we don't change the world, we change ourselves.

Every single emotion you have should be processed in prayer.

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

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

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

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?

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.

Prayer draws us near to our own souls.

Say a prayer for the pretender, who started out so young and strong only to surrender.

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

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.

Not thinking critically, I assumed that the successful prayers were proof that God answers prayer while the failures were proof that there was something wrong with me.

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

We are to be shut out from men, and shut in with God.

There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.

Sometimes you are the answer to your own prayer.

What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer.

First prepare the ground, then prayer happens on its own accord. Prayer is something that you cannot do. Meditation is something that you can do because it has something to do with your mind.

He is thinking quietly: I should not have got out of the habit of prayer.

Our prayer is a heart search. It is a reminder to ourselves that we are helpless without His support.