Quotes about Reflection

It's bad when you fail morally. It's worse when you don't repent.

I believe that when we sing, we worship twice. We express our thoughts into words, and our words into song.

Perhaps nothing helps us make the movement from our little selves to a larger world than remembering God in gratitude. Such a perspective puts God in view in all of life, not just in the moments we set aside for worship or spiritual disciplines. Not just in the moments when life seems easy.

Keeping the Sabbath day holy is much more than just physical rest. It involves spiritual renewal and worship.

Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.

I think my worst problem is actually living in the moment and understanding everything that's going on. I feel like I'm in my own bubble.

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.

I have occasionally - if ever I do interviews that are difficult or nerve-wracking - I take my wife's dog tags and have them in my pocket because it's a very quick way to realize that what I'm doing is not that important. It's not really worth getting stressed about because it's not, you know, war.

It's very important for people to know themselves and understand what their value system is, because if you don't know what your value system is, then you don't know what risks are worth taking and which ones are worth avoiding.

Suppose you could gain everything in the whole world, and lost your soul. Was it worth it?

What about the rat race in the first place? Is it worthwhile? Or are you just buying into someone else's definition of success? Only you can decide that, and you'll have to decide it over and over and over. But if you think it's a rat race, before you drop out, take a deep breath. Maybe you picked the wrong job. Try again. And then try again.

Live so that when the final summons comes you will leave something more behind you than an epitaph on a tombstone or an obituary in a newspaper.