Quotes about Reflection

Pause for a moment and prayerfully consider your response: What breaks your heart?

What science is showing us today is what God told us through Solomon almost three thousand years ago: "For as he thinks in his heart, so is he" (Proverbs 23:7 NKJV). So if both the Bible and modern science teach us that our lives are moving in the direction of our strongest thoughts, then we need to make time for introspection and ask ourselves, "Do I like the direction my thoughts are taking me?

Sincere doubts, handled properly, can become a gift.

When you glance back toward your shoreline, where are you in relationship to where you once were with God? Hebrews 2:1 says, "We must pay more careful attention … to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.

In ten years, we will each look in the mirror, and someone will stare back. That person will be shaped by the thoughts of today.

The second admission my young adult friends made is that they know their obsession is distracting them from God. Again, let me ask you to be honest. Do you think more about what God says in his Word or what people say on your feed? How much time do you think about God versus what to say online? Work hard to tell the truth. No matter how tempting it is to ignore him, if God is trying to get your attention, don't shake him off.

I knew we'd been out there on the water a long time when the sun began its colorful descent to meet the horizon.

Now, if you want to pray together about something specific, you might want to organize your thoughts by writing them down. Sharing these written prayer requests with your spouse can really deepen your relationship.

One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on.

I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade. It's amazing how it cheers one up to shred oranges and scrub the floor.

I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.

Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don't know how to manage it.