Quotes about Reflection

Remember God's bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude!

It is part and parcel of every man's life to develop beauty in himself. All perfect things have in them an element of beauty.

A library is but the soul's burial-ground. It is the land of shadows.

Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past.

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.

I used to think the Lord's Prayer was a short prayer; but as I live longer, and see more of life, I begin to believe there is no such thing as getting through it. If a man, in praying that prayer, were to be stopped by every word until he had thoroughly prayed it, it would take him a lifetime.

Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.

Repentance is another name for aspiration.

Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.

No man is greater than his prayer life. The pastor who is not praying is playing; the people who are not praying are straying. We have many organizers, but few agonizers; many players and payers, few pray-ers; many singers, few clingers; lots of pastors, few wrestlers; many fears, few tears; much fashion, little passion; many interferers, few intercessors; many writers, but few fighters. Failing here, we fail everywhere.

Are the things you are living for worth Christ dying for?

LORD strengthen me where I am too weak and weaken me where I am too strong!