Quotes about Reflection

Such planning should include identifying the things in your life that you believe trouble Jesus—impatience, overeating, lying, or whatever it may be for you.

He teaches us how to be in prayer what we are in life and how to be in life what we are in prayer.

This time of reflection should also include thanksgiving for all the ways the day went well.

A thoughtless or uninformed theology grips and guides our life with just as great a force as does a thoughtful and informed one.

They presume on their justification in being whatever they are—unlike a thought, which by nature is open to challenge and invites the question "Why?

Every emotion, though horizontally provoked, nevertheless reflects something about the vertical dimension: our relationship with God.

All evaluations eventually boil down to this: Am I moving toward God or away from Him? Am I turning toward God with awe and gratitude, or away from Him toward false gods of my own making?

We often don't know our own stories because we doubt their existence, dismiss their importance, or we're distracted.

Defensiveness often reveals an area of our lives where we're in denial.

Thank you God for everything in my life. The good and the bad. Some were blessings and some were lessons.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature — trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.