Quotes about Reflection

Little input of God's Word results in little resemblance to God's Son.

Prayerful people become godly people, for prayerfulness with God cultivates godliness in all of life.

Pray over the Scriptures. Christians just setting out on the path of prayer sometimes pray for everything they can think of, glance at their watches, and discover they have been at it for all of three or four minutes. This experience sometimes generates feelings of defeat, discouragement, even despair. A great way to begin to overcome this problem is to pray through various biblical passages.

To be like Jesus, we must see the use of our time as a Spiritual Discipline.

The first thing the child of God has to do morning by morning is to obtain food for his inner man.

If after your death a biographer or your children were to scan your canceled checks for insight into what kind of Christian you were, what conclusion would they come to? What would they reveal about your walk with Christ? Would those checks be tangible evidence of your spiritual trustworthiness?

Meditation must follow hearing and precede prayer.

How does the Word memorized become the Word applied? It happens through meditation.

Why do we forget what we read in the Bible? Is it just a poor memory? No, it's a failure to meditate.

Take every word as spoken to yourselves. When the word thunders against sin, think thus: "God means my sins;" when it presseth any duty, "God intends me in this." Many put off Scripture from themselves, as if it only concerned those who lived in the time when it was written; but if you intend to profit by the word, bring it home to yourselves: a medicine will do no good, unless it be applied.

You may be singing 'Holy, holy, holy,' but if you aren't thinking about God while singing it, you are not worshiping.

The reason we come away so cold from reading the word is because we do not warm ourselves at the fire of meditation.