Quotes about Reflection

Zealousness to learn from life is seldom found, but all the more frequently a desire, inclination, and reciprocal haste to be deceived by life.

for he who loves God without faith reflects upon himself, he who loves God believingly reflects upon God. Upon

He writes because for him doing so is a luxury, the more agreeable and conspicuous the fewer who but and read what he writes.

Fortvivlelsens Misforhold er ikke et simpelt Misforhold, men et Misforhold i et Forhold, der forholder sig til sig selv, og er sat af et Andet, saa Misforholdet i hiint for sig værende Forhold tillige reflekterer sig uendeligt i Forholdet til den Magt, som satte det.

Did the Apostle Paul have any official position?' No, Paul had no official position. 'Did he, then, earn a lot of money in another way?' No, he did not earn money in any way. 'Was he, then, at least married?' No, he was not married. 'But then Paul was certainly not a serious man!' No, Paul is not a serious man.

The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.

he who loves God without faith reflects upon himself he who loves God believingly reflects upon God.

People who do not know how to remain silent, do not know how to talk.

When you read God's Word, in everything you read, continually to say to yourself: It is I to whom it is speaking, it is I about whom it is speaking—this is earnestness, precisely this is earnestness

repentance and remorse. The one calls us forward.

The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.

Rouse thee, my fainting soul, and play the man; And through such waning span of life and thought as still has to be trod, Prepare to meet thy God. And while the storm of that bewilderment Is for a season spent, And, ere afresh the ruin on me fall, Use well the interval.