Quotes about Reflection
(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
A good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also learn more about life. You become wiser.
— Mortimer Adler
Only a bad person needs to repent: only a good person can repent perfectly.
— CS Lewis
We are very good judges for the mistakes of others, but very good defence lawyers for our own mistakes.
— Nicky Gumbel
The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.
— John Updike
Don't waste a good mistake, learn from it.
— Robert Kiyosaki
I drank a bottle of wine for company. It was Chateau Margaux. It was pleasant to be drinking slowly and to be tasting the wine and to be drinking alone. A bottle of wine was good company.
— Ernest Hemingway
Be a collector of good ideas. Keep a journal. If you hear a good idea, capture it, write it down. Don't trust your memory.
— Jim Rohn
God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person.
— Teresa of Avila
If we could follow the slogan that says,"Turn off the TV and open a good book" we would do something of substance for a future generation.
— Gordon Hinckley