Quotes about Reflection

Let maps to other, worlds on worlds have shown; Let us possess one world; each hath one, and is one. My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears, And true plain hearts do in the faces rest; Where can we find two better hemispheres Without sharp north, without declining west?

O Lord, as one made so by thee, to think me fit for thee; and whether it be thy pleasure to dispose of this body, this garment, so as to put it to a farther wearing in this world, or to lay it up in the common wardrobe, the grave, for the next, glorify thyself in thy choice now, and glorify it then, with that glory, which thy Son, our Saviour Christ Jesus, hath purchased for them whom thou makest partakers of his resurrection. Amen.

Life after death is the elephant in the living room, the one that we are not supposed to notice.

What I read in the Bible seemed to me to be very much a part of daily life.

I never talk about being leaders and all the rest of it. I can only remember one or two occasions in my life when I actually issued orders, and I felt thoroughly miserable after doing it.

One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual.

For pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion.

Life would be no better than candlelight tinsel and daylight rubbish if our spirits were not touched by what has been.

The crisis of our prayer life is that our minds may be filled with ideas of God while our hearts remain far from him.

We won't fully experience joy until we've answered life's biggest question: Why am I here?

The kind of poetry I write, lyric poetry, I think is really concerned with intimacy, with mystery. That needn't be religious mystery, there are mysteries to do with everyday life.

Oh, the worst of all tragedies is not to die young, but to live until I am seventy five and yet not ever truly to have lived.