Quotes about Reflection

We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.

One half of my life has put the other half in the grave.

Never allow anything that divides or destroys the oneness of your life with Christ to remain in your life without facing it.

When we have arrived at the question, the answer is already near.

Take it that you have died today, and your life's story is ended; and henceforward regard what future time may be given you as uncovenanted surplus, and live it out in harmony with nature.

We often read the Bible as if it were fundamentally about us: our improvement, our life, our triumph, our victory, our faith, our holiness, our godliness.

It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

It may not seem obvious at first glance, but the way we make decisions in life tells a lot about the kind of faith we have in Jesus Christ.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon, the great British pulpiteer, had said in a sermon almost exactly a hundred years before: The condition of the church may be very accurately gauged by its prayer meetings. So is the prayer meeting a grace-ometer, and from it we may judge of the amount of divine working among a people. If God be near a church, it must pray. And if he be not there, one of the first tokens of his absence will be a slothfulness in prayer.

The more we pray, the more we sense our need to pray. And the more we sense a need to pray, the more we want to pray.

The next time you are faced with an insurmountable problem, I'd advise you to look into the heavens on a clear night.