Quotes about Mindfulness

It is altogether fitting and proper that we should enjoy things made for us to enjoy. What is not at all fitting or proper is that we should set our hearts on them. Temporal things must be treated as temporal things - received, given thanks for, offered back, but enjoyed. They must not be treated like eternal things.

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences; all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on Earth—and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up—that we will begin to live each day to the fullest.

Like completing a run, living today begins with preparation, planning, and prayer.

If you want to live a godly life, then choose to put the things into your mind that lead to living a godly life.

The way to worry about nothing is to pray about everything.

Don't waste your most important resource—your life.

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.

Before we open our mouths, we ought to heed the advice of the missionary Amy Carmichael and ask: Is what I'm about to say kind? Is it true? Is it necessary?

Prayer loosens the grip of envy on our hearts.

I have discovered that just because we grow weaker physically as we age, it doesn't mean that we must grow weaker spiritually.

About four days a week, I do pretty good at having a morning prayer time. But even at that, it's a rambling sort of thing. What I have learned to do better is to try to keep my mind turned toward God and ear inclined toward God throughout the day, and I think I'm doing better at that, but I've got a long way to go.