Quotes about Reflection
If the physicists seem to achieve their ends more successfully than the theologians, that is simply a reflection of how much easier science is than theology.
— John Polkinghorne
From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.
— John Quincy Adams
Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
— John Quincy Adams
Most of American life is driving somewhere and then driving back wondering why the hell you went.
— John Updike
The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.
— John Updike
Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.
— John Updike
Truth should not be forced it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man.
— John Updike
I went to America to convert the Indians; but oh! who shall convert me?
— John Wesley
Once in seven years I burn all my sermons; for it is a shame if I cannot write better sermons now than I did seven years ago.
— John Wesley
We should be rigorous in judging ourselves and gracious in judging others.
— John Wesley
True humility is a kind of self-annihilation; and this is the centre of all virtues.
— John Wesley
And I am the rather induced to do what little I can in this way, because I can do nothing else: being prevented, by my present weakness, from either travelling or preaching. But, blessed be God, I can still read, and write, and think. O that it may be to his glory!
— John Wesley