Quotes about Reflection
In the same way that a powerful medicine cures an illness, so illness itself is a medicine to cure passion. And there is much profit of soul in bearing illness quietly and giving thanks to God.
- Syncletica of Alexandria
In meditative prayer, one thinks and speaks not only with the mind and lips, but in a certain sense with one's whole being... All good meditative prayer is a conversation of our entire self to God.
- Thomas Merton
Do we give thanks to God 'for his unspeakable gift' and His rich blessings so abundantly bestowed upon us?
- Thomas Monson
Holy Saturday. The best reminder that the silence of God doesn't equal the absence of God.
- Tullian Tchividjian
The best of what we do and are, Just God, forgive!
- William Wordsworth
This for God and this for myself; This for my soul, and this other for my body?
- Khalil Gibran
God has challenged me to grow in my knowledge of Him but I have to CHOOSE whether or not to display this growth through my actions.
- Lysa TerKeurst
When I don't understand something, I reach up and hold God's hand. And we walk together in silence.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Human understanding is fallible, and we see through a glass, darkly. Any religion is a shadow of God. But the shadows of God are not God.
- Margaret Atwood
Spend the next few days preparing for the year ahead: Forgive everyone, let go of everything, let God take charge. Amen.
- Marianne Williamson
If you allow yourself to deepen with midlife, your experience of everything deepens, including your experience of God.
- Marianne Williamson
The healthiest and holiest people are the people who laugh at themselves the most. Failure helps us take God more seriously and ourselves less seriously.
- Mark Batterson