Quotes about Journaling

Since the Lord is speaking directly to you through journaling, I believe journaling amounts to receiving a personal prophecy. The New Testament limits prophecy to three categories: "edification, exhortation, and comfort" (1 Cor. 14:3).

Journaling is one of the most overlooked and undervalued spiritual disciplines. In my estimation, it's on a par with praying, fasting, and meditating. It's the way we document what God is doing in our lives.

Well, I always wanted to write from the time I was very little, and my mother encouraged me. She wrote a journal from the time she was 15 up until about the age of 76.

The shortest pencil is longer than the longest memory. That's why I keep a prayer journal. Next to my Bible, nothing is more sacred to me than my journal.

A person employed in direct missionary work among the natives, especially if his employ is somewhat itinerant, can easily make long and interesting journals.

Journaling is the difference between learning and remembering. It's also the difference between forgetting and fulfilling our goals.

One of the most helpful tools a writer has is his journals. Whenever someone asks how to become an author, I suggest keeping a journal.

I do know this: most people, myself included, are at their most vulnerable in a journal. They pour it all out. Sometimes a journal is the only ear that will listen, or at least the only one that you want to talk to.

The reason why I spend so much money for my journals is to press me to find something valuable to put in them.

A journal is a great way to keep track of what happens daily in your walk with God and to record your prayers and thoughts.

An honest man with an open Bible and a pad and pencil is sure to find out what is wrong with him very quickly.

In my journals I have a lot of conversations that I'm having with you in my head. I'll be having a conversation with you and I'll put it in my journal because stereotypically or symbolically these conversations occur in a space of Black woman/white woman where it's beyond Adrienne and Audre, almost as if we're two voices.