Quotes about Reflection

Bad days will come for each one of us, and the more we've thought these things through ahead of time, the better prepared we'll be when tragedy strikes or struggles emerge.

Without transformation, you can assume you're at a high moral, spiritual level just because you call yourself Lutheran or Methodist or Catholic. I think my great disappointment as a priest has been to see how little actual spiritual curiosity there is in so many people.

Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.

i can nourish myself on nothing but truth

Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.

The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.

Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Late have I loved you! And, behold, you were within me, and I out of myself, and there I searched for you.

They, then, who are destined to die, need not be careful to inquire what death they are to die, but into what place death will usher them.

I will pass then beyond this power of my nature also, rising by degrees unto Him Who made me.

And the good delight to hear of the past evils of such as are now freed from them, not because they are evils, but because they have been and are not.

But what shall men do who cannot find anything wise to say, because they are interpreting foolish things?

In matters that are so obscure and far beyond our vision, we find in Holy Scripture passages which can be interpreted in very different ways without prejudice to the faith we have received. In such cases, we should not rush in headlong and so firmly take our stand on one side that, if further progress in the search for truth justly undermines this position, we too fall with it.