Quotes about Reflection
All intellectual improvement arises from leisure.
— Samuel Johnson
The movement toward gratitude, authenticity, and union is the natural and organic inner work of the second half of our lives.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Yes, there was an element of abstraction and unreality in misfortune. But when an abstraction starts to kill you, you have to get to work on it.
— Albert Camus
You are an artist. What work of art will you leave behind?
— Erwin McManus
So many missionaries, intent on doing something, forget that His main work is to make something of them.
— Jim Elliot
Be honest with God and ask Him to give you a willingness to do the work of prayer.
— David Jeremiah
If you have anything better to be doing when death overtakes you, get to work on that.
— Epictetus
There is a temperate zone in the mind, between luxurious indolence and exacting work; and it is to this region, just between laziness and labor, that summer reading belongs.
— Henry Ward Beecher
I still close my eyes and go home - I can always draw from that.
— Dolly Parton
When we tell the story of our own conversion, I would have it done with great sorrow, remembering what we used to be, and with great joy and gratitude, remembering how little we deserve these things.
— Charles Spurgeon
No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
— George Eliot