Quotes about Reflection
There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
The prayer life does not consist of perpetual repetition of petitions. The prayer life consists of life that is always upward and onward and Godward.
— G Campbell Morgan
Fervent prayer keeps your true identity in focus.
— Priscilla Shirer
Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us.
— RC Sproul
Prayer is sitting in the silence until it silences us, choosing gratitude until we are grateful, and praising God until we ourselves are an act of praise.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
God speaks in the silence of the heart. Listening is the beginning of prayer.
— Mother Teresa
The Christian on his knees sees more than the philosopher on tiptoe. God sends no one away empty except those who are full of themselves.
— DL Moody
I do not know much about God and prayer, but I have come to believe over the last twenty-five years, that there's something to be said about keeping prayer simple. Help, Thanks, Wow.
— Anne Lamott
By turning your eyes on God in meditation, your whole soul will be filled with God. Begin all your prayers in the presence of God.
— Francis de Sales
I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness.
— Marianne Williamson
...Prayer is not always petition, sometimes it is just communion. It is the exquisite ministry of friendship.
— John Henry Jowett
Mental prayer is nothing else but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him.
— Teresa of Avila