Quotes about Reflection

I am seen by You under the sky, and my offenses have been forgotten by You--but I have not forgotten them.

All those days and nights were without romance, horrible.

If we are to pray well, we too must discover the Lord to whom we speak, and if we use the Psalms in our prayer we will stand a better chance of sharing in the discovery which lies hidden in their words for all generations. For God has willed to make Himself known to us in the mystery of the Psalms.

St. Augustine adds that God has taught us to praise Him, in the Psalms, not in order that He may get something out of this praise, but in order that we may be made better by it.

The simplest and most effective way to sanctity is to disappear into the background of ordinary everyday routine.

We must slow down to a human tempo and we'll begin to have time to listen.

When a hideous man becomes a father And a son is born to him In the middle of the night He trembles and lights a lamp And runs to look in anguish On that child's face To see whom he resembles.

I should be able to return to solitude each time as to the place I have never described to anybody, as the place which I have never brought anyone to see, as the place whose silence has mothered an interior life known to no one but God alone.

Therefore beware of the contemplative who says that theology is all straw before he has ever bothered to read any.

There is, in a word, nothing comfortable about the Bible...

Man is the image of God, and his inner self is a kind of mirror in which God not only sees Himself, but reveals Himself to the "mirror" in which He is reflected.

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.