Quotes about Reflection
He that will teach himself in school, becomes a scholar to a fool.
— Bernard of Clairvaux
To know much and taste nothing-of what use is that?
— St Bonaventure
What we are looking for is what is looking.
— St. Francis Of Assisi
Nor did demons crucify Him; it is you who have crucified Him and crucify Him still, when you delight in your vices and sins.
— St. Francis Of Assisi
Reading is of great service towards procuring recollection in any one who proceeds in this way; and it is even necessary for him, however little it may be that he reads, if only as a substitute for the mental prayer which is beyond his reach.
— Teresa of Avila
What is it we buy with this money we desire? Is it something valuable? Is it something lasting? Oh, why do we desire it? Miserable is the rest achieved that costs so dearly.
— Teresa of Avila
It is wrong to pass one's time in fretting, instead of sleeping on the Heart of Jesus.
— St. Therese of Lisieux
The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
the Sioux did not rejoice. Too many of their own had been lost that day. When
— Stephanie Grace Whitson
One must become as humble as the dust before he can discover truth.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Silence is the mother of truth.
— Benjamin Disraeli
The longer we view ourselves through a distorted lens, the more likely we are to believe a distorted truth.
— Craig Groeschel