Quotes about Reflection

But, oh! we are far more occupied with our work than we are with prayer. We believe more in speaking to men than we believe in speaking to God.

Nothing will so test and stimulate the Christian life as the honest attempt to be an intercessor.

Stop and think, and take in the wondrous thought that will be both the motivation and the power for an entirely new life: "Christ is in you." If you merely learn to believe this, to give way to it, and to yield yourself to Him, He will do His mighty saving work in you.

It is not sin, but God's grace showing a man and ever reminding him what a sinner he was, that, will keep him truly humble.

That humility has taken up its abode in us; and become our very nature; that we actually, like Christ, have made ourselves of no reputation.

May God write the Word in our hearts!

No man can expect to make progress in holiness who is not often and long alone with God.

True humility comes when, in the, light of God, we have seen ourselves to be nothing, have consented to part with and cast away self, to let God be all.

But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thine inner chamber, and having shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret, and thy Father which seeth in secret shall recompense thee.'—Matt. vi. 6.

I guess that was the forerunner of our Saturday morning meetings. We wanted everybody to know what was going on and everybody to be aware of the mistakes we made. When somebody made a bad mistake—whether it was myself or anybody else—we talked about it, admitted it, tried to figure out how to correct it, and then moved on to the next days work.

This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

We never do anything consciously for the last time without sadness of heart.