Quotes about Reflection
Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is Just
— Thomas Jefferson
I felt enough of the effect of withdrawing from the world then, to see that it led to an antisocial and misanthropic state of mind, which severely punished him who gives in to it. And it will be a lesson I never shall forget as to myself.
— Thomas Jefferson
When angry, count to 10 before you speak. If very angry, a hundred.
— Thomas Jefferson
If our life is poured out in useless words, we will never hear anything, never become anything, and in the end, because we have said everything before we had anything to say, we shall be left speechless at the moment of our greatest decision.
— Thomas Merton
When you expect the world to end at any moment, you know there is no need to hurry. You take your time, you do your work well.
— Thomas Merton
Hurry ruins saints as well as artists.
— Thomas Merton
Violence is not completely fatal until it ceases to disturb us.
— Thomas Merton
Art enables us to find ourselves and loose ourselves at the same time.
— Thomas Merton
The spiritual life is first of all a life. It is not merely something to be known and studied, it is to be lived.
— Thomas Merton
The geographical pilgrimage is the symbolic acting out of an inner journey. The inner journey is the interpolation of the meanings and signs of the outer pilgrimage. One can have one without the other. It is best to have both.
— Thomas Merton
Whose silence are you?
— Thomas Merton
It is true that we are called to create a better world. But we are first of all called to a more immediate and exalted task: that of creating our own lives.
— Thomas Merton