Quotes about Reflection

Don't say to yourself, "But God is not talking to me right now." He ought to be. Remember whose you are and whom you serve. Encourage yourself to remember, and your affection for God will increase tenfold. Your mind will no longer be starved, but will be quick and enthusiastic, and your hope will be inexpressibly bright.

Experience is a doorway, not a final goal. Beware of building your faith on experience, or your life will not ring true and will only sound the note of a critical spirit.

The Lord's questions always reveal the true me to myself.

Reflected peace is the proof that you are right with God because you are at liberty to turn your mind to Him.

God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticise, but that we may intercede.

The mountaintop is not meant to teach us anything, it is meant to make us something. There is a terrible trap in always asking, "What's the use of this experience?" We can never measure spiritual matters in that way. The moments on the mountaintop are rare moments, and they are meant for something in God's purpose.

Jesus' instructions with regard to judging others is very simply put; He says, "Don't." The average Christian is the most piercingly critical individual known. Criticism is one of the ordinary activities of people, but in the spiritual realm nothing is accomplished by it. The effect of criticism is the dividing up of the strengths of the one being criticized.

You must constantly beware of anything that causes you to think of yourself as a superior person.

He gives us the gift of holiness, are we exercising it?

Prayer is not an exercise, it is the life.

Beware of not acting upon what you see in your moments on the mountaintop with God.

My vision of God is dependent upon the condition of my character.