Quotes about Reflection

He wasn't much of a listener, not a great payer of attention to things outside his head.

All good human work remembers its history.

Nobody ever outgrows Scripture the book widens and deepens with our years.

Never make it without the compass. In the trees, I'd lose all sense of perspective. Direction. Maybe life is like that.

I have come to know one thing without ay shadow of doubt: if anything in this universe reflects the fingerprint of God, it is the human heart.

Emma once told me that some people spend their whole lives trying to outrun God, maybe get someplace He's never been. She shook her head and smiled, wondering why. Trouble is, she said, they spend a lifetime searching and running, and when they arrive, they find He's already been there.

if anything in this universe reflects the fingerprint of God, it is the human heart.

I stood and pulled her up on two feet. "That depends." "On what?" "Whether you're looking at this through my eyes or yours.

I'm sorry I ever thought about eating you.

So, the water that would cleanse me was not water from my head—where I'd learned to rationalize my indifference. But water from my heart.

But time does heal. Not like we think it does, not like we would—from the front—but more from the back or side or someplace we can't see it coming. It bubbles up beneath and rises all around.

In my experience, it's those words on the tip of the tongue that we most need to hear. They are the key. The thing that's missing. But you can't pull them out. They have to be offered. Freely. And they won't be offered until the owner trusts you with them. And to do that means they've got to break through a world of hurt and pain just to get them out of their mouth. I caught my reflection in the mirror.