Quotes about Reflection

Life, if well lived, is long enough.

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones at hand do more toward a happy life than whole volumes that we know not where to find.

Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.

Live among men as if God beheld you speak to God as if men were listening.

One should count each day a separate life.

Speech is the mirror of the mind.

The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.

God comforts the disturbed and disturbs the comfortable.

When i ask God why all of these injustices are allowed to exist in the world, i can feel the Spirit whisper to me, 'you tell me why we allow this to happen. You are my body, my hands, my feet.

Augustine of Hippo said, "Let us leave a little room for reflection in our lives, room too for silence. Let us look within ourselves and see whether there is some delightful hidden place inside where we can be free of noise and argument. Let us hear the Word of God in stillness and perhaps we will then come to understand it.

It's hard to hear the gentle whisper of the Spirit amid the noise of Christendom.

Perhaps one of the most powerful things the contemporary church could do is to confess our sins to the world, the humbly get on our knees and repent for the terrible things we have done in the name of God.