Quotes about Reflection

Your life is something opaque, not transparent, as long as you look at it in an ordinary human way. But if you hold it up against the light of God's goodness, it shines and turns transparent, radiant and bright. And then you ask yourself in amazement: Is this really my own life I see before me?

The Full Measure of a man is not to be found in the man himself, but in the colors and textures that come alive in others because of him.

Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no sunday, it becomes an orphan.

Dare to face the situation...Man has become a superman... But the superman with the superhuman power has not risen to the level of superhuman reason. To the degree which his power grows he becomes more and more a poor man... It must shake up our conscience that we become all the more inhuman the more we grow into superhuman.

We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

He who does not reflect his life back to God in gratitude does not know himself.

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

I am I, and I wish I weren't.