Quotes about Reflection
There are times when I feel that he has withdrawn from me, and I have often given him cause, but Easter is always the answer to My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me!
- Madeleine L'Engle
God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies.
- Viktor E. Frankl
I have sometimes called this 'double listening'. Listening to the voice of God in Scripture, and listening to the voices of the modern world, with all their cries of anger, pain and despair.
- John Stott
When you see God in everyone, then they see God in you.
- Thomas Merton
God's church is not a stage for us to perform on but a garden for us to grow in.
- Michael Horton
I find that when I think I am asking God to forgive me I am often in reality. . . asking Him not to forgive me but to excuse me.
- CS Lewis
We must seek, in studying God, to be led to God.
- JI Packer
When we see a beautiful object, a beautiful garden, or a beautiful flower, let us think that there we behold a ray of the infinite beauty of God, who has given existence to that object.
- Alphonsus Liguori
The most shattering thought I've ever had is my personal accountability to God one day
- Leonard Ravenhill
How happy I am to see myself as imperfect and to be in need of God's mercy.
- St. Therese of Lisieux
O, God of wonder, enlarge my capacity to be amazed at what is amazing, and end my attraction to the insignificant.
- John Piper
Where is our acknowledgement of God if our thoughts are fixed on the glamour of our garments?
- John Calvin