Quotes about Reflection

And who understands? Not me, because if I did I would forgive it all.

And to 'scape stormy days, I choose an everlasting night.

One question such events provoke is "What kind of God allows this to happen?" Another question we might ask is, "What kind of creatures are human beings that we should cause and allow this to happen?

Henri Nouwen once asked Mother Teresa for spiritual direction. Spend one hour each day in adoration of your Lord, she said, and never do anything you know is wrong. Follow this and you'll be fine.

Sometimes the idea of living as a hermit appeals to all of us. No demands, no needs, no pain, no disappointments. But that is because we have been hurt, are worn out.

Wouldn't it help you to realize that you really do live in an epic if your life had a soundtrack?

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.