Quotes about Reflection

The serious thoughts of our short stay here would be a great means of promoting godliness. What if death should come before we are ready? What if our life should breathe out before God's Spirit has breathed in? Whoever considers how flitting and winged his life is, will hasten his repentance!

If my career was a basketball season, I'm in the pre-season still. I'm not blowing everybody out by 40 - there's so much work to be done, and there's no time to really sit and look back and be proud of what I've done yet, because it's the pre-season still.

I don't want to be responsible for messing up someone. I don't want to be responsible for that, because the things that happened in The Verve, it was heavy stuff. It was real. It wasn't just frivolous nonsense, you know what I mean? There was real people's lives.

I was fully burnt out - and in some ways I think that was good, because I was just fully numb.

Just like all my novels, 'Illusion' is a good way to observe where Frank Peretti was in his life when he wrote it.

If you listen through the screen of your desires, then you obviously listen to your own voice; you are listening to your own desires.

The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmares.

Self-knowledge is the beginning of self-correction.

Try, really try. Think, really think. Believe, really believe.

A basic law: The more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.

The more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.

January 29 Do not exclusively say your prayers in the form of asking God for something. The prayer of thanksgiving is much more powerful. Name all the fine things you possess, all the wonderful things that have happened to you, and thank God for them. Make that your prayer.