Quotes about Reflection

If you're a Christian you're just a shadow of your future self.

Traditions tell us where we have come from. Scripture itself is a better guide as to where we should now be going.

We have to grow into Scripture, like a young boy inheriting his older brother's clothes and flopping around in them, but he gradually builds out and grows up. Perhaps it's a measure of our maturity when parts of Scripture that we found odd or even repellent suddenly come up in a new light. Our sense is overtaken by a sense of the whole thing, wide, multicolored, and unspeakably powerful.

Do not despise the small but significant symbolic act. God probably does not want you to reorganize the entire discipline or the entire world of your vocation overnight. Learn to be symbol-makers and story-tellers for the kingdom of God.

To open the Bible is to open a window toward Jerusalem, as Daniel did (6:10), no matter where our exile may have taken us.

If the Bible is not simply "revelation," neither is it simply a devotional aid, even the primary devotional aid.

When human beings give their heartfelt allegiance to and worship that which is not God, they progressively cease to reflect the image of God.

The author chuckles at the resistance to using a prepared, written liturgy in prayer. He compares it to being unwilling to dress in any clothing we did not make ourselves, or being unwilling to drive a car we did not construct entirely by ourselves.

To many, "The Bible is a form of verbal wallpaper, pleasant enough in the background, but he stop thinking about it after you have lived in the house for a few weeks.

Beauty matters, dare I say, almost as much as spirituality and justice.

Setting the stage for the Tower of Babel, the author says that, while humanity had a mission to reflect God, it had been distracted by its own reflection and was both fascinated and fearful of what it saw.

Life after death, it seems, can be a serious distraction not only from the ultimate life after life after death, but also from life before death.