Quotes about Reflection

We are not made for brilliant moments, but we have to walk in the light of them in ordinary ways.

Are you learning to listen to God before you speak, or are you saying things and then trying to make God's Word fit what you have said?

Let your memory have its way with you. It is a minister of God bringing its rebuke and sorrow to you. God will turn what might have been into a wonderful lesson of growth for the future.

Think of the enormous leisure of God! He is never in a hurry. We are always in such a frantic hurry.

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

And everything else in your life will be held in temporary suspension until you make a decision.

Is God having His way with me, and are people beginning to see God in my life more and more? Be serious in your commitment to God and gladly leave everything else alone. Literally put God first in your life.

It is impossible to carry on your life as a disciple without definite times of secret prayer.

When God brings a time of waiting, and appears to be unresponsive, don't fill it with busyness, just wait.

When "important" individuals go away we are sad, until we see that they are meant to go, so that only one thing is left for us to do—to look into the face of God for ourselves.

Certainty is the mark of the commonsense life—gracious uncertainty is the mark of the spiritual life. To be certain of God means that we are uncertain in all our ways, not knowing what tomorrow may bring.

Our Lord never asks questions until the perfect time. Rarely, but probably once in each of our lives, He will back us into a corner where He will hurt us with His piercing questions. Then we will realize that we do love Him far more deeply than our words can ever say.