Quotes about Reflection

we are to work from our rest, not rest from our work.

We have become human "doings" rather than human "beings.

My kids have moved more in their twenties, you know, than my parents have moved in nearly 40-something years of marriage before they died. So there's a part of me that laments what we have lost, and that is a sense of community.

Immortality no longer interests the weary old man at all.

Unaware that our culture has subverted our faith, we lose a place from which to judge our own culture

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

If a book is easy and fits nicely into all your language conventions and thought forms, then you probably will not grow much from reading it. It may be entertaining, but not enlarging to your understanding. It's the hard books that count. Raking is easy, but all you get is leaves; digging is hard, but you might find diamonds.

God speaks in the silence of the heart. Listening is the beginning of prayer.

Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts.

Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart.

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.

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.