Quotes about Reflection

Thus although Nebuchadnezzar no longer remembered his dream, yet he could not forget the impression it made.

For it is not possible to make the mercy of God large and good, unless a person first makes his miseries large and evil or recognizes them to be such. To make God's mercy great is not, as is commonly supposed, to think that God considers sins as small or that He does not punish them.

If I examine myself I find enough unholiness to shock me. But when I look at Christ in me I find that I am altogether holy.

Hence one should follow the advice of the hermit to whom a youth complained that he rather often experienced imaginations concerned with lusts and other sins and to whom the old man replied: "You cannot prevent the birds from flying over your head. But let them only fly and do not let them build nests in the hair of your head. Let them be thoughts and remain such; but do not let them become conclusions."32

I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer.

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Forgiveness is not an occasional act it is an attitude.

Hold thought steadfastly to the enduring, the good, and the true, and you will bring these into your experience proportionately to their occupancy of your thoughts.

Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

So enjoy present pleasures as to not mar those to come.

St. Peter scold me saying son, where have you been? And he saw me with you and asked why are you with that person? and I said to him sorry St. Peter, I though it was heaven.