Quotes about Reflection

If you know how to worry, you know how to meditate. It means to think of something over and over.

I don't enjoy eating humble pie; it never tastes good. But I do appreciate it when it happens.

I was brought up in a home environment where I was taught to think critically and was encouraged to seek answers to questions about my faith.

When I teach the formal curriculum, I have the chance to think about it ahead of time. I can rehearse it. I can illustrate it with self-deprecating humor and humble-sounding personal disclosure. I can try to make it comes out just right.

I spent three weeks lamenting, ruminating and praying because football had been part of my life since age 6. Then I moved on. I'm glad I always had another clear plan. Several of my FSU teammates did not and do not. It's hard to leave a sport that is embedded in you.

There is possibly nothing that can so radically change the Church and the lives of individual believers as having our criticisms changed into intercession

This is a timely warning for those who live at the end of the age when digital devices provide information so quickly that thinking is no longer needed.

True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.

We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it.

Why is this happening to me? Why am I having such a difficult time? One answer is that life is supposed to be difficult! It's what enables us to grow. Remember, earth is not heaven!

If you prayed as much as you complain and quarrel, you'd have a lot less to argue about and much more peace of mind.

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.