Quotes about Reflection
What if earth be but the shadow of heaven, and things therein each to other like, more than on earth is thought?
— John Milton
Life is not about what we see, it is about the way it goes.
— John Milton
Solitude sometimes is best society.
— John Milton
Innocence, Once Lost, Can Never Be Regained. Darkness, Once Gazed Upon, Can Never Be Lost.
— John Milton
Safely through another week, GOD has brought us on our way, Let us now a blessing seek On th' approaching sabbath-day:
— John Newton
We very often fail to see our present circumstances in right perspective. Look back over the past, however, and compare what you have been brought through with your frame of mind during each successive period. Consider how wonderfully one thing has been connected with another so that what we now count as our greatest benefits are
— John Newton
If God, in his sovereign pleasure, had so appointed, you might have been as he is now; and he, instead of you, might have been set for the defense of the gospel. You were both equally blind by nature. If you attend to this, you will not reproach or hate him, because the Lord has been pleased to open your eyes, and not his.
— John Newton
I am not the man I ought to be, I am not the man I wish to be and I am not the man I hope to be, but, by the grace of God, I am not the man I used to be.
— John Newton
Seek in reading and thou shalt find in meditation; knock in prayer and it shall be opened in contemplation.
— John of the Cross
We tend to be preoccupied by our problems when we have a heightened sense of vulnerability and a diminished sense of power. Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.
— John Ortberg
One of the great illusions of our day is that hurrying will buy us more time.
— John Ortberg
We have largely traded wisdom for information, depth for breadth. We want to microwave maturity.
— John Ortberg