Quotes about Spiritual Reflection
Prayer gives us a pure heart and a pure heart can do much.
— Mother Teresa
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?
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
If we really want to achieve true prayer, we must turn our backs upon everything temporal, everything external, everything that is not divine.
— Johannes Tauler
Scriptures were just words on a page and my prayers failed to lift.
— Lynn Austin
If there be any thing a man might well pray against, that thing is the responsive gratification of some of the devoutest prayers of his youth.
— Herman Melville
Our prayers may be an index of how small and self-centered our world is.
— DA Carson
Quiet, deep breath after any prayer is another form of Amen.
— Anne Lamott
Prayer is the supreme instance of the hidden character of the Christian life.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
You say "But He has not answered." He has He is so near to you that His silence is the answer. His silence is big with terrific meaning that you cannot understand yet but presently you will.
— Oswald Chambers
Blessed be to God for the day of rest and religious occupation wherein earthly things assume their true size.
— William Wilberforce
So that almost a doubt within me springs Of Providence, such emptiness at length Seems at the heart of all things. But, great God! I measure back the steps which I have trod
— William Wordsworth