Quotes about Reflection

As long as you are at home make your cell your paradise, gather there the varied fruits of scripture, let this be your favourite companion, and take its precepts to your heart.

Exchange your love of necklaces and of gems and of silk dresses for earnestness in studying the scriptures.

Shall we presume on God's grace by tolerating in ourselves the very sin that nailed Christ to the cross?

We need to ask God daily to search our hearts for sin that we cannot or will not see.

Don't believe everything you think. You cannot be trusted to tell yourself the truth. Stay in The Word." (The Great Exchange)

Whether before breakfast or after, morning or evening, the point is we must all arrange our schedules to provide for this daily intake of the Word of God.

we tend to overlook that it was for Jesus an excruciating experience beyond all we can imagine.

Too often, however, we tend to read these accounts merely as biblical history without relating them to our lives and our situations. But

It's not enough to agree that we do tolerate at least some of them. Anyone except for the most self-righteous person will acknowledge that. "After all, no one is perfect," may be our attitude. But to honestly face those sins is another matter. For one thing, it is quite humbling. It also implies that we must do something about them. We can no longer continue to ignore them as we have in the past.

How do we view those who do not show love for us? Do we see them as persons for whom Christ died or as persons who make our lives difficult?

His moral purity serves to magnify our impurity.

The problem with self-righteousness is that it seems almost impossible to recognize in ourselves. We will own up to almost any other sin, but not the sin of self-righteousness. When we have this attitude, though, we deprive ourselves of the joy of living in the grace of God. Because, you see, grace is only for sinners.