Quotes about Reflection

You can live to be old or young, but you'll always have moments when you lose your head.

Admire as much as you can, most people don't admire enough.

Whenever we meet disappointment and sickness and trouble, my boy, let us thank Him for having brought us this hour, and let us not forget meekness, for it is written: 'On this man will I look, even on him who is poor and sorrowful and who trembleth at My word.

For one's own work, thoughts and observation are not enough, we need the comfort and blessing and guidance of a higher power, and that is something anyone who is at all serious and who longs to lift up his soul to the light is sure to recognize and experience. Pining for God works like leaven on dough.

I, for my part, am always glad that I have read the Bible more carefully than many people do nowadays, just because it gives me some peace of mind to know that there used to be such lofty ideals.

Admire as much as you can; most people do not admire enough.

So now, when anyone says that such and such is done too quickly, you can reply that they have looked at it too quickly.

Try to grasp the essence of what the great artists, the serious masters, say in their masterpieces, and you will again find God in them. One man has written or said it in a book, another in a painting. Just read the Bible and the Gospel, that will start you thinking, thinking about many things, thinking about everything, well then, think about many things, think about everything, that will lift your thoughts above the humdrum despite yourself. We know how to read, so let us read!

It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.

In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book shown to him by heart, and his friends can only read the title.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.