Quotes about Reflection
Remember God more often than you breathe.
— Gregory of Nazianzus
It is right that you should begin again every day. There is no better way to complete the spiritual life than to be ever beginning it over again.
— Francis de Sales
I know of no better thermometer to your spiritual temperature than this, the measure of the intensity of your prayer.
— Charles Spurgeon
Spiritual life is like living water that springs up from the very depths of our own spiritual experience. In spiritual life everyone has to drink from his or her own well.
— Bernard of Clairvaux
You are made in the image of what you desire.
— Thomas Merton
Are the things you are living for worth Christ dying for?
— Leonard Ravenhill
The most dangerous condition for a man or a nation is when his intellectual side is more developed than his spiritual. Is that not exactly the condition of the world today?
— Arthur Conan Doyle
To me, growing into spiritual maturity is becoming less self-conscious and more God-conscious.
— Mark Batterson
Spiritual maturity is not knowing what to do with your whole life, but just knowing what to do next.
— Henri Nouwen
We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.
— Calvin Coolidge
We do not drift into spiritual life or disciplined prayer. We will not grow in prayer unless we plan to pray.
— DA Carson
spiritual exercises whereby to conquer oneself, and order one's life, without being influenced in one's decision by any inordinate affection.
— Ignatius of Loyola