Quotes about Reflection

I think about what I've lost instead of thinking about what I have.

Perhaps it was the approach of death that had opened his eyes wide and made him see so clearly.

Listen to me, friend. Lay aside your pride or it will entangle you in sin. Anger is your worst enemy.

Our work is to devote our own lives to pleasing God. It's that simple. We're to devote our efforts to learning to think as God thinks, to see ourselves and others through his eyes, to walk as he walked. That's our life's work.

Anything outside yourself, this you can see and apply your logic to it. But it's a human trait that when we encounter personal problems, these things most deeply personal are the most difficult to bring out for our logic to scan. We tend to flounder around, blaming everything but the actual, deep-seated thing that's really chewing on us.

What does a mirror look at?

You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgement of your existence.

We tend to become like the worst in those we oppose.

I cannot lie to you any more than I could lie to myself," Paul said. "I know this. Every man should have such an auditor.

At the age of fifteen, he had already learned silence.

You don't see much of any path unless you are Janus, looking simultaneously backward and forward.

The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon him.