Quotes about Reflection

Six days a week we wrestle with the world, wringing profit from the earth; on the Sabbath we especially care for the seed of eternity planted in the soul. The world has our hands, but our soul belongs to Someone Else. Six days a week we seek to dominate the world, on the seventh day we try to dominate the self.

The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of the Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.

Within our awe we only know that all we own we owe.

We may assume it is God we care for, but it may be our own ego we are concerned with. To examine our religious existence is, therefore, a task to be performed constantly.

Creative thinking is not stimulated by vicarious issues but by personal problems.

A moment of insight is a fortune, transporting us beyond the confines of measured time.

The Sabbath is holiness in time.

It is not we who long for a day of rest, but the Sabbath spirit that is lonely and longs for us.

It is not utility that we seek in religion but eternity.

The best prophet of the future is our past.

The Bible is to be understood by the spirit that grows with it, wrestles with it, and prays with it.

Six days a week the spirit is alone, disregarded, forsaken, forgotten.