Quotes about Reflection

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.

God had been good to them all today. But He was good every day just, sometimes she noticed.

The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.

Learning without thought is labor lost.

When you see a worthy person, endeavor to emulate him. When you see an unworthy person, then examine your inner self.

Learning without thought is labor lost; and thought without learning is perilous.

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.