Quotes about Reflection

The bare recollection of anger kindles anger.

Speech is a mirror of the soul as a man speaks, so is he.

The end always passes judgement on what has gone before.

Rightly understood the New Year festival is an act of faith. It is easier for the year to change than to change ourselves. But we believe that somehow, magically, one will lead to the other.

Greek mythology tells of a beautiful youth who loved no one until the day he saw his own reflection in the water and fell in love with that reflection. He was so lovesick, he finally wasted away and died, and was turned into a flower that bears his name — Narcissus.

God's way of getting your attention.

There's this thing that I like to call the RC Sproul principle of hermenutics. When you're reading the bible and you come across someone doing something really stupid, don't say to yourself "I'm glad I'm not him". Ask yourself "How am I that stupid?

John Newton looked across the kitchen table and said to William Cowper, "I'm not what I ought to be. I'm not what I want to be. I'm not what I hope to be. But thank God I'm not what I used to be.

Be absolutely aware that you are self-righteous and that this is the root of your problem.

Heaven will be filled with people who realize throughout eternity they have no right to be there.

face up to the seriousness — possibly a high-handed wickedness — of what they did; and still to forgive. This

In our case, God often raises up an enemy to see if we really want to be like Jesus.