Quotes about Reflection
What you and I need is usually not a brand-new teaching. Brand-new truths are probably not truths. What we need are reminders about the greatness of the old truths. We need someone to say an old truth in a fresh way. Or sometimes, just to say it.
— John Piper
Come to the end of your life—your one and only precious, God-given life—and let the last great work of your life, before you give an account to your Creator, be this: playing softball and collecting shells. Picture them before Christ at the great day of judgment: "Look, Lord. See my shells." That is a tragedy.
— John Piper
If the physicists seem to achieve their ends more successfully than the theologians, that is simply a reflection of how much easier science is than theology.
— John Polkinghorne
From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.
— John Quincy Adams
Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
— John Quincy Adams
Most of American life is driving somewhere and then driving back wondering why the hell you went.
— John Updike
The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.
— John Updike
Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.
— John Updike
Truth should not be forced it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man.
— John Updike
I went to America to convert the Indians; but oh! who shall convert me?
— John Wesley
Once in seven years I burn all my sermons; for it is a shame if I cannot write better sermons now than I did seven years ago.
— John Wesley
We should be rigorous in judging ourselves and gracious in judging others.
— John Wesley