Quotes about Reflection
This is Old Age; but then, thou must outlive Thy youth, thy strength, thy beauty; which will change 540 To withered, weak, and gray; thy senses then, Obtuse, all taste of pleasure must forego, To what thou hast; and, for the air of youth, Hopeful and cheerful, in thy blood will reign A melancholy damp of cold and dry 545 To weigh thy spirits down, and last consume The balm of life.
— John Milton
For solitude sometimes is best society and short retirement urges sweet return.
— John Milton
Was I to have never parted from thy side? As good have grown there still a lifeless rib. Paradise Lost, Book IX, l. 1154
— John Milton
Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies.
— John Milton
However, many books, Wise men have said, are wearisome; who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior, (And what he brings what needs he elsewhere seek?) Uncertain and unsettled still remains, Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself, Crude or intoxicate, collecting toys And trifles for choice matters, worth a sponge, As children gathering pebbles on the shore.
— John Milton
Although my memory's fading, I remember two things very clearly: I am a great sinner and Christ is a great Savior.
— John Newton
Pride moves us to bow down before a mirror rather than before God.
— John Ortberg
Failure is not something that happens to us or a label we attach to things. It is a way we think about outcomes.
— John Ortberg
Author Evelyn Waugh was a Catholic who fell pretty woefully short of his faith's standards. Somebody asked Waugh one time, "How can you call yourself a Catholic and be so badly behaved, so mean, such a jerk, so spiteful?" Waugh responded, "Just imagine me if I were not a Catholic." And
— John Ortberg
Whatever repeatedly enters the mind occupies the mind, eventually shapes the mind, and will ultimately express itself in what you do and who you become.
— John Ortberg
The issue when it comes to meditation is what, not if. The mind observes the impulse to meditate the way the body observes the law of gravity. Scripture has a lot to say about meditating wisely. The psalmist talks about the fruitful person as one whose "delight is in the law of the
— John Ortberg
He who is alone with his sins is utterly alone. DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
— John Ortberg