Quotes about Reflection

What is that which gleams through me, and strikes my heart without hurting it; and I shudder and kindle? I shudder, inasmuch as I am unlike it; I kindle, inasmuch as I am like it.

And that you are yet alive is due to God, who spares you that you may be admonished to repent and reform your lives.

And he departed from our sight that we might return to our heart, and there find Him. For He departed, and behold, He is here.

I too have sworn heedlessly and all the time, I have had this most repulsive and death-dealing habit. Im telling your graces; from the moment I began to serve God, and saw what evil there is in forswearing oneself, I grew very afraid indeed, and out of fear I applied the brakes to this old, old, habit.

Believe me, you will find more lessons in the woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you what you cannot learn from masters.

He that will teach himself in school, becomes a scholar to a fool.

To know much and taste nothing-of what use is that?

What we are looking for is what is looking.

Nor did demons crucify Him; it is you who have crucified Him and crucify Him still, when you delight in your vices and sins.

Reading is of great service towards procuring recollection in any one who proceeds in this way; and it is even necessary for him, however little it may be that he reads, if only as a substitute for the mental prayer which is beyond his reach.

What is it we buy with this money we desire? Is it something valuable? Is it something lasting? Oh, why do we desire it? Miserable is the rest achieved that costs so dearly.

It is wrong to pass one's time in fretting, instead of sleeping on the Heart of Jesus.