Quotes about Reflection

It is strange that men will prepare for everything except death. We prepare for education. We prepare for business. We prepare for our careers. We prepare for marriage. We prepare for old age. We prepare for everything except the moment we are to die.

The lives of many reflect the practices and standards of this present world . . . they are more interested in imitating the world system dominated by Satan than in imitating Christ.

The church is in turmoil today. The church is not to reflect the world but to be a portrait of Jesus Christ.

No matter how much you exercise, no matter how many vitamins or health foods you eat, no matter how low your cholesterol, you will still die—someday. If you knew the moment and manner of your death in advance, would you order your life differently?

It is entirely possible to be deeply sorry because of the devastation which sin has wrought in our lives—and yet not repent.

Anyone who has genuinely seen God is deeply convicted of his or her own sin.

Although the testimony of my mother's life helped mold me and taught me how to live, the testimony of her last years and her death gave me insight into how to die.

Nothing will help us grow spiritually more than spending time alone with God every day, reading His Word and praying. Time alone with God is essential to our spiritual welfare.

The [twentieth century] could well go down in history not so much as a century of progress but as "the century of superficiality".

I look upon it as a lost day when I have not had a good time over the Word of God.

How do we prepare for that last day? Before we embark on our final trip, have we left an earthly home in a state of chaos or a condition of order?

How different would today be if you knew it would be your last one on earth before meeting God face-to-face? We should strive to live every day as if it was our last, for one day it will be!