Quotes about Reflection

Insufficient respect for mystery leads to intellectual suicide; insufficient penetration of mystery leads to shallowness and despair.

Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.

Read it quickly and with total immersion.

Ask questions while you read—questions that you yourself must try to answer in the course of reading.

One reader is better than another in proportion as he is capable of a greater range of activity in reading and exerts more effort. He is better if he demands more of himself and of the text before him.

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.

Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self

If you ask, 'What happens when we die? Why do we die?' you are asking, 'Why do we live?

Is the gratitude that flows out of your life as abounding as the grace that has flowed into your life?

Keep in mind that it is not enough that we should just read the Word. The object is that the words that are printed on the page would become indelibly written on our hearts. God never intended that we should merely get onto His Word-His intent is that the Word should get into us.

Gratitude is a lifestyle. A hard-fought, grace-infused, biblical lifestyle.

False humility and morbid introspection are, in fact, the opposite of brokenness, as they reveal a preoccupation with self, rather than Christ.