Quotes about Reflection

I apologize when I'm wrong.

When I worked in Asia for a long time, I just felt like I needed a break.

How fast we learn in the day of sorrow! Scripture shines out in a new effulgence; every verse seems to contain a sunbeam, every promise stands out in illuminated splendor; things hard to be understood become in a moment plain.

Less, less of self each day, And more, my God, of Thee!

Thus while I journey on, my Lord to meet,My thoughts and meditations are so sweet,Of Him on whom I lean, my strength, my stay,I can forget the sorrows of the way.

Let us see God before man every day.

For it is not knowing much, but realising and relishing things interiorly, that contents and satisfies the soul.

The Third Method of Prayer is that with each breath in or out, one has to pray mentally, saying one word of the Our Father, or of another prayer which is being recited: so that only one word be said between one breath and another, and while the time from one breath to another lasts, let attention be given chiefly to the meaning of such word, or to the person to whom he recites it, or to his own baseness, or to the difference from such great height to his own so great lowness.

Nothing vague, idle, or purely speculative, is to occupy man in the retreat. He comes to learn to conquer himself; to free himself from evil passions; to reform the disorder, great or little, of his past life, and to regulate it for the future by a plan conformable to the Divine will.

When we sin or make a mistake, we try to learn from it. We don't hold on to it and nurse our feelings of unworthiness.

Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.

The past has a way of rising up and stepping into view when we least expect it.