Quotes about Reflection
Consider the work of God: Who can straighten what He has bent?
— Ecclesiastes 7:13
For you know in your heart that many times you yourself have cursed others.
— Ecclesiastes 7:22
All this I tested by wisdom, saying, “I resolve to be wise.” But it was beyond me.
— Ecclesiastes 7:23
Who is like the wise man? Who knows the interpretation of a matter? A man’s wisdom brightens his face, and the sternness of his face is changed.
— Ecclesiastes 8:1
I have also seen this wisdom under the sun, and it was great to me:
— Ecclesiastes 9:13
As dead flies bring a stench to the perfumer’s oil, so a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor.
— Ecclesiastes 10:1
So if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all. But let him remember the days of darkness, for they will be many. Everything to come is futile.
— Ecclesiastes 11:8
Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of adversity come and the years approach of which you will say, “I find no pleasure in them,”
— Ecclesiastes 12:1
before the light of the sun, moon, and stars is darkened, and the clouds return after the rain,
— Ecclesiastes 12:2
on the day the keepers of the house tremble and the strong men stoop, when those grinding cease because they are few and those watching through windows see dimly,
— Ecclesiastes 12:3
when the doors to the street are shut and the sound of the mill fades away, when one rises at the sound of a bird and all the daughters of song grow faint,
— Ecclesiastes 12:4
Remember Him before the silver cord is snapped and the golden bowl is crushed, before the pitcher is shattered at the spring and the wheel is broken at the well,
— Ecclesiastes 12:6