Quotes about Reflection
Eating more consciously now feels like a way of being. I actually think about how my food got to my plate.
- Oprah Winfrey
Forgiveness is setting the prisoner free, only to find out that the prisoner was me.
- Corrie Ten Boom
I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.
- CS Lewis
Sin scorches us most after it comes under the scrutinizing light of God's forgiveness and not before
- Karl Barth
Let those who think I have said too little and those who think I have said too much, forgive me; and let those who think I have said just enough thank God with me.
- St. Augustine
How can we understand forgiveness if we haven't recognized the depth of our sin?
- John Henry Newman
Today I offer a prayer of forgiveness: forgive the pettiness of my ingratitude... the absence of profound thankfulness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different.
- Oprah Winfrey
If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart.
- Jesse Jackson
I rest in the light of forgiveness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Find your way with the certain and gentle light of forgiveness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Forgiveness does not mean condoning what has been done. It means taking what happened seriously...drawing out the sting in the memory that threatens our entire existence.
- Desmond Tutu