Quotes about Reflection

If counseling is to be restored to the church, affection must be restored to reflection. If counseling is to be restored to the church, delight in God must be restored to doctrines about God. Savoring Christ must be restored to seeing Christ. Tender contrition must be restored to tough conviction. Communication with God must be restored to contending for God.

I'll take a bath and then I'll return." No, God is the bath.

You don't get to a better place with God until you recognize that where you are is not as good.

Too often Jesus Christ was not my Master but a bystander I visited with at church occasionally.

When we experience God for who He really is, we suddenly see ourselves for who we are.

Where is the church persevering in the priority of prayer?

Of course God went after Jonah, inquiring gently, "Do you do well to be angry?" However, insane from isolation, Jonah answers remarkably, "Yes, I do well to be angry, angry enough to die." Wow!

Turning to him, Spurgeon said, "If you had gone up the way you came down, you could have come down the way you went up.

Pride rises above and against the knowledge of God, acting as if He is unworthy to be retained in our thoughts.

true encounter with the God of the universe makes me feel gladly small, perfectly puny, and happily so, in my assigned place and actual size! A true experience of eternity leaves us feeling, as C. S. Lewis said, "the infinite relief of having for once got rid of all the silly nonsense about your own dignity which has made you restless and unhappy all your life."28

If God is not changing you, you have to honestly ask, "Have I ever really converted?" To put it another way, "If your faith isn't changing you, it hasn't saved you." The people who really have the new birth—the people who really have that conversion experience—are changing.

When we see the faults of others, we are to forgive and forbear in humility.