Quotes about Reflection

It is always the case that when the Christian looks back, he is looking at the forgiveness of sins.

Prayer without study would be empty. Study without prayer would be blind.

Take your Bible and take your newspaper, and read both. But interpret newspapers from your Bible.

Everyone who has to contend with unbelief should be advised that he ought not to take his own unbelief too seriously.

Meditating on the nature and dignity of prayer can cause saying at least one thing to God: Lord, teach us to pray!

It would be all right if I could pray in this way, or in that other way, if I were just able to give You the only thing You want: not my thoughts and feelings and resolutions, but myself. But that is just what I am unable to do, because in the superficiality of the ordinary routine into which my life is cast, I am a stranger to myself. And how can I seek You, being so distant, how can I give myself up to You, when I haven't been able as yet to find myself?

Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.

Books are the most wonderful friends in the world. When you meet them and pick them up, they are always ready to give you a few ideas. When you put them down, they never get mad; when you take them up again, they seem to enrich you all the more.

Nothing ever happens in the world that does not happen first inside human hearts.

Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Any book which inspires us to lead a better life is a good book.

Men have tried to construct abstract and causal answers to this question of sin's origin and have violated the very limits of objectivity. Whoever reflects on the origin of cannot engage himself in a merely theoretical dispute; rather he is engaged intimately, in the problem of sin's guilt.