Quotes about Reflection

The sweet hour of prayer as a mid-week breather in the church has been reduced to a sweet twenty minutes of prayer.

Brethren, to our knees again,

Is life's span so dear and are home comforts so engrossing as to be purchased with my unfaithfulness and dry-eyed prayerlessness? At the final bar of God, shall the perishing millions accuse me of materialism coated with a few Scripture verses?

Things may happen around you, and things may happen to you, but the only things that really count are the things that happen in you." 

We may be through with our past, but the past isn't through with us.

The Book of Life says, "As a man thinketh, so is he, and as he continues to think, so he remains."6 Earl Nightingale asked the question: "What's wrong with men today?" He answered the question by saying, "Men simply don't think!" Not only do we often not think, but even when we do think, we think with the world mind. This is why we must re-think our lives!

Curtsy while you're thinking what to say. It saves time.

Speak in French when you can't think of the English for a thing—turn out your toes when you walk—and remember who you are!

It's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.

When I read the statements of Christ, there seems to be this urgency and intensity. I guess that's what I get out of it when I read the tone of the Scriptures, which is very different from the tone of our culture.

We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.