Quotes about Spiritual Reflection
I believe the contemplative mind is the mind of Christ.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
To stay on the surface of anything is invariably to miss its message—even the surface meaning of our sinfulness.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Of course, to be honest and consistent, one must ask if "church family" is not also a family that one has to eventually "hate" in this very same way, and with the same scandal involved as hating the natural family.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Life is a luminous pause between two great mysteries, which themselves are one.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
When you think about a problem over and over in your mind, that's called worry. When you think about God's Word over and over in your mind, that's meditation. If you know how to worry, you already know how to meditate!
— Rick Warren
The truths that I know best I have learned on my knees. I never know a thing well, till it is burned into my heart by prayer.
— John Bunyan
He who avoids prayer is avoiding everything that is good.
— John of the Cross
Of all things, guard against neglecting God in the secret place of prayer.
— William Wilberforce
Start today by practicing constant conversation with God and continual mediation on his Word. Prayer lets you speak to God; mediation lets God speak to you.
— Rick Warren
God speaks in the silence of the heart, and we listen. And then we speak to God from the fullness of our heart, and God listens. And this listening and this speaking is what prayer is meant to be.
— Mother Teresa
Pray inwardly, even if you do not enjoy it. It does good, though you feel nothing. Yes, even though you think you are doing nothing.
— Julian of Norwich
God speaks in the silence of the heart. Listening is the beginning of prayer.
— Mother Teresa