Quotes about Reflection

I eat out alone a lot.

I found peace through God but not until I had driven myself to the edge.

I used to dream of being other places, other people. It was an escape for me.

I take each event, and I have to learn from it.

Suppose that we allot ourselves a generous eight hours a day for sleep (and few need more than that), three hours for meals and conversation, ten hours for work and travel. Still we have thirty-five hours each week to fill. What happens to them? How are they invested?

These days, the practice of reading spiritual classics is on the wane. We have more leisure today than ever before in history, but many people claim to have no time for reading. A spiritual leader cannot use that excuse.

Leaders should determine to spend a minimum of half an hour a day reading books that feed the soul and stimulate the mind.

Indeed, if we read merely to stock our head with ideas, to feel superior to others, or to appear learned, then our reading is useless and vain.

It is often helpful to keep records of how each hour in a given week is spent, and then look at the record in the light of scriptural priorities. The results may be shocking. Often the record shows that we have much more time available for Christian service than we imagine.

Will the leader reflect the ugliness of egotism or the transfigured glory of Christ the Lord?

Why Read? "Read to refill the wells of inspiration

When we measure ourselves by the life of Jesus, who humbled Himself on the cross, we are overwhelmed with the shabbiness, even the vileness, of our hearts, and we cry: Boasting excluded, pride I abase; I'm only a sinner, saved by grace. James M. Gray Egotism