Quotes about Reflection
Like my evening walk.
— John Eldredge
What sort of tale have I fallen into? is a question that would help us all a great deal if we wondered it for ourselves.
— John Eldredge
So you turn from your independence and all the ways you either charge at life or shrink from it; this may be one of the most basic and the most crucial ways you repent.
— John Eldredge
Now, if I am having a hard time hearing God's voice, or being certain that I have heard, I will sometimes try on one answer, then the other. Still in a posture of quiet listening, I will add to my prayers, Are you saying yes, Jesus? Are you saying you want us to go? Pause. Listen. Or are you saying no—you don't want us to go? Often as we try on one answer or another, our spirit can feel the guidance of the Holy Spirit through a confirmation, or a strong sense of reservation.
— John Eldredge
Set your phone alarm so that three times a day you stop, love God, and give him your allegiance. I love you, God. I love you, God. I love you. I give you my allegiance. I choose you over all things. Give me the strength that prevails.
— John Eldredge
The problem of self-identity is not just a problem for the young. It is a problem all the time. Perhaps the problem. It should haunt old age, and when it no longer does it should tell you that you are dead.
— John Eldredge
If a man is ever to find out who he is and what he's here for, he has got to take that journey for himself. He has got to get his heart back.
— John Eldredge
Prayer does not have to be theologically correct. It is a conversation.
— John Goldingay
If I looked into a mirror, and did not see my face, I should have the sort of feeling which actually comes upon me, when I look into this living busy world, and see no reflexion of its Creator.
— John Henry Newman
The Via Media has slept in libraries; it is a substitute of infancy for manhood.
— John Henry Newman
Thou art a dreaming thing, A fever of thyself.
— John Keats
Pensive they sit, and roll their languid eyes.
— John Keats