Quotes about Solitude
If you have ever prayed in the dawn you will ask yourself why you were so foolish as not to do it always: it is difficult to get into communion with God in the midst of the hurly-burly of the day.
- Oswald Chambers
Whole days and weeks have I spent prostrate on the ground in silent or vocal prayer.
- George Whitefield
The heart which has no agenda but God's is the heart at leisure from itself. Its emptiness is filled with the Love of God. Its solitude can be turned into prayer.
- Elisabeth Elliot
I must exchange whispers with God before shouts with the world.
- Lysa TerKeurst
Mankind have such a deep stake in inward illumination, that there is much to be said by the hermit or monk in defence of his life of thought and prayer.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let it be your business every day in the secrecy of the inner chamber to meet the holy God. You will be repaid for the trouble it may cost you. The reward will be sure and rich.
- Andrew Murray
Everybody's friend is nobody's.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Religion is what you do with your solitude.
- William Temple
Your religion is what you do with your solitude.
- William Temple
My overcoat is worn out my shirts also are worn out. And I ask to be allowed to have a lamp in the evening it is indeed wearisome sitting alone in the dark.
- William Tyndale
This perpetual hurry of business and company ruins me in soul if not in body. More solitude and earlier hours!
- William Wilberforce
And I was taught to feel, perhaps too much, The self-sufficing power of solitude.
- William Wordsworth