Quotes about Reflection
Memories are so fragile, you know. Sometimes I feel they are best left undisturbed.
— Janette Oke
I was going to need help. I knew of only one true source readily available to me. I stopped for a few moments of prayer.
— Janette Oke
I have always heard that you need to give yourself a long time to unplug when you do a sabbatical. I unplugged so fast I was a little concerned that I was losing brain capacity.
— John Ortberg
The more I try to unravel the mysteries of the world in which we live, the more I come to the conception of a single overruling power - God.
— Henry B. Eyring
When the soul is understood and attended to, we can be liberated from hurry, preoccupation, unsatisfied desires, and chronic discontent.
— John Ortberg
Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I reached 80, my world turned upside down physically. I've had a lot of physical problems.
— Billy Graham
Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power...Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
The older I get, the more I meet people, the more convinced I am that we must only work on ourselves, to grow in grace. The only thing we can do about people is to love them.
— Dorothy Day
My whole life I have been complaining that my work was constantly interrupted, until I discovered that my interruptions were my work.
— Henri Nouwen
The essential thing is to work in a state of mind that approaches prayer.
— Henri Matisse
People who work hard often work too hard. ... May we learn to honor the hammock, the siesta, the nap and the pause in all its forms.
— Alice Walker