Quotes about Reflection
Look behind you: What have you learned? Look around you: What is happening to others? Look above you: What does God expect of you? Look besides you: What resources are available to you?
- John Maxwell
If every gnat that flies were an archangel, all that could but tell me that there is a God; and the poorest worm that creeps tells me that.
- John Donne
I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call and invite God and his angels thither.
- John Donne
One reason why we fail to hear God speak is that we are not attentive. We suffer from what might be called 'spiritual mindlessness.'
- John Ortberg
The moral perfections of the Deity, the more attentively, we consider, the more perfectly still shall we know them.
- Joseph Addison
Instead of blaming everyone and everything else for your problems, pray for God to help you take an inventory of what's been on your mind so you can think about what you've been thinking about.
- Joyce Meyer
The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
- George Bernard Shaw
I am not where I need to be, but thank God I am not where I used to be.
- Joyce Meyer
oh my soul...be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions
- William Paul Young
(God) being the old man invented in order to, and with whom to, hold long conversations.
- Milan Kundera
The Word of God I think of as a straight edge, which shows up our own crookedness. We can't really tell how crooked our thinking is until we line it up with the straight edge of Scripture.
- Elisabeth Elliot
If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.
- Confucius