Quotes about Reflection

LISTEN TO ME CONTINUALLY. I have much to communicate to you, so many people and situations in need of prayer.

The rest of this story is recorded in Jesus Calling: 365 Devotions with Real-Life Stories.

Even when you are feeling anxious, thank Me for the gift of My Peace.

A successful day is one in which you have stayed in touch with Me, even if many things remain undone at the end of the day. Do not let your to-do list (written or mental) become an idol directing your life.

The first forty years of our life give the text, the next thirty furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly to understand the true meaning and connection of the text with its moral and its beauties.

The longer you look at the idea that we read the Bible to find new meanings, the sillier it becomes. We read and return to the Bible not (just) to find something new but to hear something old, not to discover something fresh but to be reminded of something ancient.

PART OF THE GENIUS of genuine Christianity is that each generation has to think it through afresh.

And I always do this aloud, or at least at a mumble level, making sure I am doing more than just glancing at the psalms or prayers. Glancing at prayers is the fastest path toward vain repetitions I know of. For that reason, the church has always advocated reading our prayers aloud so we will go more slowly and concentrate more on what we are saying. Prayer books are designed to be read aloud.

It is far too easy to be critical. It is far harder to have a better idea.

This entire book—don't forget this please—is for each of those seven churches. Every vision, every interlude, every song is for each of them.

Bonhoeffer sketched what would in reality become his own virtue and fate: "But their peace will never be greater than when they encounter

Let your life speak.