Quotes about Reflection
I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.
— Albert Schweitzer
The real harvest of life is the outworking of the internal. If there's nothing in there, there's nothing to work out.
— Bishop TD Jakes
The first demand any work of art makes upon us is to surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way.
— CS Lewis
What began the change was the very writing itself. Let no one lightly set about such a work. Memory, once waked, will play the tyrant.
— CS Lewis
Sometimes you have to be forced away from your work to realize youÂ've made too much of it, to remember it doesnÂ't define you.
— Rachel Held Evans
In an effort to get the work of the Lord done we often lose contact with the Lord of work.
— AW Tozer
If the soul has food for study and learning, nothing is more delightful than an old age of leisure.
— Cicero
Prayer does not demand that we interrupt our work, but that we continue working as if it were a prayer.
— Mother Teresa
Get up; repent. Come to God. Get the pattern of your life from Him, and then go about your work and be yourself.
— Phillips Brooks
And this is the final meaning of work: the extension of human consciousness. The lesser meaning of work is the achieving of self-preservation.
— DH Lawrence
One of the reasons that Christians read Scripture repeatedly and carefully is to find out just how God works in Jesus Christ so that we can work in the name of Jesus Christ.
— Eugene Peterson
One way to appreciate C.S. Lewis is to see how his Christian humility shaped his life and work.
— John Piper