Quotes about Reflection

Count that day lost whose low descending sun. Views from thy hand no worthy action done.

In life you will meet two kinds of people: Those who build you up and those who tear you down. But in the end, you will thank them both.

Life is an echo. What you send out, you get back. What you give, you get.

Your meditations may be as profound, as exalted, as devout as you like; you may practise every pious exercise you can manage, but all this is as nothing in comparison with the Blessed Sacrament. What we do may be godly, but this sacrament is God Himself!

The books of C.S. Lewis had a very profound, indirect effect on me.

I realized that everything I had to do I could not do on my own, and so I was almost obliged to put myself in God's hands, to trust in Jesus who - while I wrote my book on him - I felt bound to by an old and more profound friendship.

It was huge to read the Proverbs of the day every morning, it was huge to read the Psalm of the day every morning and to get that in us and get us going before the day even started.

The good and wise lead quite lives

You don't know what your life is, nor what you're doing, nor who you are.

There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course; a quiet conscience.

The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind, bravery is forethought.

For when a man of high degree meets with adversity, he feels the strangeness of his fallen state more keenly than a sufferer of long standing.