Quotes about Reflection

Perhaps I can say that I am a bit astute, that I can adapt to circumstances, but it is also true that I am a bit naive. Yes, but the best summary, the one that comes more from the inside and I feel most true is this: I am a sinner whom the Lord has looked upon.

Yes, the natural world is the first and primary Bible. We have not honored it, so how could we, or would we, know how to honor and properly use the second Bible, when it was written.

Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday.

Let go of yesterday.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

You aren't learning anything when you're talking.

I have great respect for the past. If you don't know where you've come from, you don't know where you're going. I have respect for the past, but I'm a person of the moment. I'm here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I'm at, then I go forward to the next place.

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

When I did A Soldier's Story, I was very young and green and thought I knew everything-now I know I know everything!

I saw a lot of my traits in Conor that I didn't like. He was trying to live my old life from a very young age and I didn't like it.

As I'm traveling around, I meet many small children. And when I look at a small and think how we've harmed this beautiful planet since I was that age, I feel a kind of desperation, anger, shame. I don't know what I feel; I just don't know what the emotion is.

Traveling around the world and preaching for over 70 years did not give much time for reflection.