Quotes about Spiritual Reflection
And when I give thanks for the seemingly microscopic, I make a place for God to grow within me.
— Ann Voskamp
Take your Bible and take your newspaper, and read both. But interpret newspapers from your Bible.
— Karl Barth
Waiting time is not wasting time. Waiting patiently in expectation is the foundation of the spiritual life.
— Henri Nouwen
Every time we pray our horizon is altered, our attitude to things is altered, not sometimes but every time, and the amazing thing is that we don't pray more.
— Oswald Chambers
In some of the best worship songs we bring our praises to God - yet at the same time also end up preaching to ourselves.
— Matt Redman
The essence of meditation is a period of time set aside to contemplate the Lord, listen to Him, and allow Him to permeate our spirits.
— Charles Stanley
It takes deliberate and continuous effort to carve out time in our overfull schedules to listen to the voice of God.
— Sheila Walsh
As we remember prayer and take time to turn to the scriptures, our lives will be infinitely more blessed and our burdens will be made lighter.
— Thomas Monson
Only God can put Scripture inside. But reading sacred text can put it on your hearts, and then when your hearts break, the holy words will fall inside.
— Anne Lamott
Prayer is not appointed for the furnishing of God with the knowledge of what we need, but is designed as a confession to Him of our sense of need.
— AW Pink
Reflect carefully on this, for it is so important that I can hardly lay too much stress on it. Fix your eyes on the Crucified and nothing else will be of much importance to you.
— Teresa of Avila
I pray because the need flows out of me all the time-walking and sleeping. It does not change God - it changes me.
— CS Lewis