Quotes about Reflection

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.

I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it.

You can not gain peace by avoiding life.

Books are the mirrors of the soul.

When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?

Hardly anybody recognizes the most significant moments of their life at the time they happen.

You have to make time, even for something as universal as staring at the stars.

Easter is very important to me, it's a second chance.