Quotes about Reflection

God, renew my spiritual eyes to see you walk before me and beside me as I turn to you in every situation of life. Thank you for being truly present in my worship of you!

Things that are important to us are written in our calendars. If you want to be intentional about setting aside time to pray, you need to plan for it.

What would it be like to be Christ? I mean, did He ever play ball? Did He ever knock a window out of somebody's house and did He ever have to explain to His dad that He had to borrow twelve dollars?

The most important aspects of our lives cannot be rushed. We cannot love, think, eat, laugh, or pray in a hurry...When we are in a hurry--which comes from overextension--we find ourselves unable to live with awareness and kindness.

The spiritual disciplines are wisdom, not righteousness. But they are wise practices that train and transform our hearts.

As such, we should pray, as Macrina Weiderkehr prayed so eloquently, "O God, help me to believe the truth about myself, no matter how beautiful.

The shame I feel as a Catholic Christian, aware in detail of the ways that the Church sanctified the hatred of Jews, not only betraying Jesus but tilling the soil out of which would come the worst crime in history, is shame not only at what my people did, but at what I can now admit I might well have done myself.

Time to plant trees is when you're young, So you will have them to walk among - So, aging, you can walk in shade That you and time together made.

At the end of life, each of us must answer the question, Whose story captured my soul?

Suffering always reveal idols of the heart.

So often, it's others around us who can see where God wants to grow us even before we see it ourselves.

Whenever you are in a critical temper, it is impossible to enter into communion with God.