Quotes about Reflection

Student—"any person who studies, investigates, or examines thoughtfully.

If we come with a chip on our shoulder that there is nothing we can learn or no benefit we can get, we will prove ourselves infallible on both counts.

The reason I use the word reflex to describe these traits of selfishness is that there is zero premeditation before they happen. When these responses happen, they are coming from my fallen nature, not from reflection and resolution. I don't sin out of duty. I sin spontaneously. They are the reflexes of my original, unmortified sinfulness.

True worship must include inward feelings that reflect the worth of God's glory.

Mental health is, in great measure, the gift of self-forgetfulness. The reason is that introspection destroys what matters most to us- the authentic experience of great things outside ourselves.

Now we see that every experience in life is designed to magnify the cross of Christ.

God's gift of understanding is through thinking, not instead of thinking.

The really wonderful moments of joy in this world are not the moments of self-satisfaction, but self-forgetfulness.

When you see carnage and "random" horror, hear the voice of God: "Unless you repent, you will all likewise perish" (Luke 13:3, 5).

The coronavirus calls us to make God the all-important, pervasive reality in our lives. Our lives depend on him more than they depend on breath. And sometimes God takes our breath in order to throw us onto himself.

Mind and Love. These two words correspond to one of the deepest lessons Edwards ever taught. Mind (or understanding) and love (or affection) correspond to two great acts of the Godhead, and two ways that humans in his image reflect back to God his own glory. Here's

We must train our people that it is not irreverent to see difficulties in the biblical text and to think hard about how they can be resolved.