Quotes about Reflection

Half of spiritual growth is learning what we don't know. The other half is unlearning what we do know.

Prayer turns us into first-class noticers. It helps us see what God wants us to notice. The more you pray, the more you notice; the less you pray, the less you notice. It's as simple as that. Let me explain how

Quiet is a think tank of the soul. Simply put, God often speaks loudest when we're quietest.

The survey consisted of one question: If you had your life to live all over again, what would you do differently? Three replies emerged as a consensus. One, risk more. Two, reflect more. Three, do more things that live on after you die.

The Bible wasn't meant merely to be read. It was meant to be prayed through, meditated on, and lived out. If all you do is read it, all you've done is audit the Word of God. And you don't get credit for an audit. You've simply been educated beyond the level of your obedience.

If you want to hear His comforting voice, you have to listen to His convicting voice.

we think so much about the present and so little about eternity that we turn eternity into nothing and nothing into eternity.

Your life is your sermon...Are you a good translation?

Before going wherever God wants to take you next, is there some place you need to go back to? Sometimes the way forward is backward. "The farther backward you can look," said Winston Churchill, "the farther forward you can see."

G. K. Chesterton said that his goal in life was to take nothing for granted—not a sunrise, not a smile, not a flower, nothing. That is a truly wonderful approach to life. Don't take anything for granted. Truly appreciate every minute that you have to live. My near-death experience has helped me be better at that. If I hadn't almost died, I wouldn't have figured out how to live.

From the secular to the sacred, we can focus on ourselves or others.

Prayer is the inheritance we receive and the legacy we leave.