Quotes about Reflection

One of the things I find depressing about some of the upper echelons of Anglicanism on both sides of the Atlantic is that it's sort of taken for granted that we all basically know what's in the Bible, and so we just glance at a few verses for devotional purposes and then get on to the real business.

The disorders of your hearts, and their sinful workings are as words before God.

Read often, learn all that you can. Let sleep overcome you, the roll still in your hands; when your head falls, let it be on the sacred page.

Preach the gospel to yourself every day.

I see no thread running through my work; I simply get on with my life and my painting.

Contemplating a purported work of art is a social activity. Either you have a rewarding time, or you don't. You don't have to say why afterward. You don't have to say anything.

the artist is not separate from the work and therefore cannot judge it.

In placing civil disobedience before constructive work I was wrong and I did not profit by the Himalayan blunder that I had committed.

Christians already? It seems to me that it takes a lifetime of work.

Life's work is to wake up, to let the things that enter your life wake you up rather than put you to sleep.

Today is the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation. Let us work and pray.

I've found that giving gifts is transformative. It makes me better. It clarifies my thinking and allows me to do better work.