Quotes about Reflection

One of the themes in my novels is that our crises can turn into blessings. We can feel like our world has crumbled, but ten years down the road when we look back on that time, we can see God's hand at work. I love writing that theme into my books.

Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.

If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.

Half an hour's meditation each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed.

I confess I take perverse delight as a theologian in the controversies surrounding postmodernism.

I should like to think how we write as theologians would reflect our confidence in the One who makes that writing possible. That is one of the reasons, moreover, that the scriptures remain paradigmatic for how we are to write.

Many who become theologians in our time think their task is to try to determine how much of what has passed for Christianity they still need to believe and yet still be able to think of themselves as Christians.

Work is therapy for the soul.

See the hand of God in all events, and thereby become reconciled to His dispensations.

The greatest gift is the ability to forget - to forget the bad things and focus on the good.

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

The things hardest to bear are sweetest to remember.