Roger Ross Williams Quotes

I’ve got to push everything out of mind save the name of Jesus. I say His name over and over again, for as long as fifteen minutes, until I find my soul suspended in what the ancient Celtic Christians called a “thin place”–a state where the boundary between heaven and earth, divine and human, dissolves. You could say that I use the name of Jesus as my koan.

The thing that brings people to wail at a wall, or face Mecca, or to go to church, is a search for that feeling of purity.

Dearest Jesus, holy child, make thee a bed, soft, undefiled, within my heart, that it may be a quiet chamber kept for thee.

Let us pray, and as we pray, let us make room for Jesus in our hearts.

Prayer is the breath, the watchword, the comfort, the strength, the honor of a Christian.

Turn in upon yourselves, get into your closets, and now resolve to dwell there. You have been strangers to this work too long; you have kept other vineyards too long; you have trifled about the borders of religion too long. Will you now resolve to look better to your hearts? Will you hate and come out of the crowds of business and clamors of the world and retire yourselves more than you have done? Oh, that this day you would resolve upon it!

To pray rightly, you must make God your hope, stay, and all. Right prayer sees nothing substantial or worth being concerned about except God.

There is no need to get to a place of prayer; pray wherever you are.

How beautiful is the family that recites the Rosary every evening.

Let us pray for peace: peace in the world and in each of our hearts.

For the Christian, all is not hopeless unless his affections are centered on the things of this world.

We should not pray for God to be on our side, but pray that we may be on God's side.

Christian music was music that I grew up listening to that I can't say has had much of an impact on anything I have done in my adult life. Maybe Christianity has, but certainly not the bullshit Christian music I was listening to when I was 12. To me there's not much substance in that music. I don't have a message or anything.

No one can pray and worry at the same time. When we worry, we aren't praying. When we pray, we aren't worrying.

I don't know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass, how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields, which is what I have been doing all day. Tell me, what else should I have done? Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon? Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

The root of prayer is interior silence.

If you have once accepted Christianity, then some of its main doctrines shall be deliberately held before your mind for some time every day. That is why daily prayers and religious reading and churchgoing are necessary parts of the Christian life. We have to be continually reminded of what we believe. Neither this belief nor any other will automatically remain alive in the mind. It must be fed.

You may as soon find a living man who does not breathe, as a living Christian who does not pray.

The man who would truly know God must give time to Him.

You might as reasonably expect to find a living man without breath, as a true Christian without the spirit of prayer and supplication.

I need the spiritual revival that comes from spending quiet time alone with Jesus in prayer and in thoughtful meditation on His Word.

Get honest with God, and your focus will shift from just seeing your problems - no matter how overwhelming they seem - to the grace of God.

He that is never on his knees on earth shall never stand upon his feet in heaven

Brother, if you would enter that Province, you must go forward on your knees.

. . . it seemed to me that where others had prayed before to their God, in their joy or in their agony, was of itself a sacred place.