Quotes about Reflection

Your feminine heart has been created with the greatest of all possible dignities—as a reflection of God's own heart.

The beauty of a woman is first a soulful beauty. And yes, as we live it out, own it, inhabit our beauty, we do become more lovely. More alluring. As the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins wrote, "Self flashes off frame and face." Our true self becomes reflected in our appearance. But it flows from the inside

Simone Weil was absolutely right- beauty and affliction are the only two things that can pierce our hearts. Because this is so true, we must have a measure of beauty in our lives proportionate to our affliction. No more. Much more. Is this not God's prescription for us? Just take a look around.

For what shall we do when we wake one day to find we have lost touch with our heart and with it the very refuge where God's presence resides?

In the middle of the road of my life, I awoke in a dark wood, where the true way was wholly lost.

But a wound unfelt is a wound unhealed.

When I pull into the driveway at the end of the day. I don't have to leap from the car; I can take a moment. I turn the engine off, sometimes lay my head down on the steering wheel, and just breathe. I try to let go of the day.

After I finish a phone call and before I start something else, I simply pause. When I pull into work in the morning and when I pull into my driveway in the evening, I pause.

Ask Jesus to show you your beauty. Ask him what he thinks of you as a woman. His words to us let us rest and unveil our beauty.

You clean and organize; you demand perfection—did you ever wonder why?

A man's heart reflects the man... Proverbs 27:19

The nearest anyone can come to finding himself at any given age is to find a story that somehow tells him about himself.