Quotes about Reflection

Learn how to collect manna for yourself. Christians who rely on a weekly sermon to feed themselves are probably malnourished.

My experience with them, as well as with other events in my life, convince me that the thing to do, when one feels sure that he has said or done the right thing, and is condemned, is to stand still and keep quiet. If he is right, time will show it.

as I reflected upon the matter, I discovered that these authors, in their books, were, after all merely making use of their own experiences or expressing ideas which they had worked out in actual life, and that to make use of their language and ideas was merely to get life second hand.

Perhaps the most valuable thing that I got out of my second year was an understanding of the use and value of the Bible.

It is not how good we are at being Christians but how good we are at dwelling and resting in God.

Wherever a great soul utters its thoughts, there is Golgatha.

My friends have made the story of my life.

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

I cannot remember how I felt when the light went out of my eyes. I suppose I felt it was always night and perhaps I wondered why the day did not come.

What I am looking for is not out there. It is in me.

Once, while we were out on the water, the sun went down over the rim of the earth, and threw a soft, rosy light over the White City.

Cooking is the best way to unwind at the end of a long writing day. There's something mindless and hands-on about cooking, which makes it feel like the very opposite of writing, which is heady but inactive.