Quotes about Reflection

I believe I see what the week is for: it is to give time to rest up from the weariness of Sunday.

Tea should be taken in solitude...

The man who is so run down that he needs a vacation can never adjust or reform himself in two weeks. What he really needs is to reform his life.

Ah, well, I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His work must be contemplated with respect.

I think that I cannot preserve my health and spirits, unless I spend four hours a day at least — and it is commonly more than that — sauntering through the woods and over the hills and fields, absolutely free from all worldly engagements.

25th Anniversary. — Love seems the swiftest but is the slowest of all growths. No man and woman really know what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

I suppose there is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul.

Your people are a mirror of your attitude. If you have a poor attitude, you can't expect your people to be upbeat.

Nothing ever goes away until it teaches us what we need to know.

New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights.

Precisely because heaven is already present on earth, the moral lives of Christians on earth are to reflect their heavenly participation.

The primary task of theology (and let's forget here about the distinction between biblical and dogmatic theology) is not to explain the historical meaning of the text but to use the Scriptures as a means of grace in drawing the reader to Jesus Christ.