Quotes about Spiritual Reflection
No man can expect to make progress in holiness who is not often and long alone with God.
— Andrew Murray
It is easy to turn our religious life into a cathedral for beautiful memories, but there are feet to be washed . . .
— Oswald Chambers
I find it most intriguing to contemplate the fact that while men are considering what place to give Jesus Christ in history, He has already decided what place to give them in eternity.
— Leonard Ravenhill
When we hear people talk of riches, honors and amusements of the world, let us remember that all things have an end, and let us then say: My God, I wish for You alone and nothing more.
— Alphonsus Liguori
I would never discredit reading the Scriptures, but it is important to meditate on it.
— Charles Stanley
My television is the tabernacle.
— Mother Teresa
Worship often takes our attention off ourselves completely. It isn't necessary to relate our worship of God to what he has done for us. God is great and worthy of our worship regardless of what he has done for us! Yet, having blessed the name of the Lord together, it strengthens our faith to remember what God has done for us, and also to hear what God is doing in other people.
— Edward Welch
When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous.
— Albert Einstein
O]ur applications are quicker about our sufferings, than our sins(77)[.]
— Richard Baxter
We have become human doings more than human beings, and the verb "rest," as Jesus uses it, is largely foreign to us.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Humans are creators of meaning, and finding deep meaning in our experiences is not just another name for spirituality but is also the very shape of human happiness.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
To take the Scriptures seriously is not to take them literally. Literalism is invariably the lowest and least level of meaning. Most
— Fr. Richard Rohr