Quotes about Reflection

I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view.

If I ever write a book, 'I Should Have Worn Comfortable Shoes' would be the title.

I have worries, but in difficult times, that is when I am quiet.

If you know how to worry, you know how to meditate. It means to think of something over and over.

I don't enjoy eating humble pie; it never tastes good. But I do appreciate it when it happens.

I was brought up in a home environment where I was taught to think critically and was encouraged to seek answers to questions about my faith.

When I teach the formal curriculum, I have the chance to think about it ahead of time. I can rehearse it. I can illustrate it with self-deprecating humor and humble-sounding personal disclosure. I can try to make it comes out just right.

I spent three weeks lamenting, ruminating and praying because football had been part of my life since age 6. Then I moved on. I'm glad I always had another clear plan. Several of my FSU teammates did not and do not. It's hard to leave a sport that is embedded in you.

There is possibly nothing that can so radically change the Church and the lives of individual believers as having our criticisms changed into intercession

This is a timely warning for those who live at the end of the age when digital devices provide information so quickly that thinking is no longer needed.

True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.

We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it.