Quotes about Reflection

Week after week, I was permitted to stand up in special clothes and talk while everyone else sat quietly and listened. Week after week, they heard the gospel filtered through my sensibilities. On Sunday mornings they sang the hymns I had chosen, and on Wednesday evenings they engaged the topics I had picked.

The meaning we give to what happens in our lives is our final, inviolable freedom.

I've gone to look for myself. If i should return before I get back, keep me here

If you can forgive the person you were, accept the person you are, and believe in the person you will become, you are headed for joy. So celebrate your life.

There's a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-Day are buried. The white crosses reach from one horizon to the other. I remember looking it over and thinking it was a forest of graves. But the rows were like this, dizzying, diagonal, perfectly straight, so after all it wasn't a forest but an orchard of graves. Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.

Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.

I feel like I wasn't making music that meant anything to me until I was 26 years old, so I'm realizing that sometimes it takes three years or five years to understand what the point of even making music together is.

Everything in life happens for a reason and it's important to embrace it.

When you recognize the festive and the still moments as moments of prayer, then you gradually realize that to pray is to live.

The bare recollection of anger kindles anger.

I listen to my old records and I think, 'How did I ever get on the radio?'

The cross is to be our point of reference for every area of our lives all the time.