Quotes about Reflection

We live by revelation, as Christians, as artists, which means that we must be careful never to get set into rigid molds. The minute we begin to think we know all the answers, we forget the questions, and we become smug like the Pharisee who listed all his considerable virtues and thanked God that he was not like other men.

It's a stage we all go through; it takes a certain amount of living to strike the strange balance between the two errors either of regarding ourselves as unforgivable or as not needing forgiveness.

there is to be any peace or reason, we have to create it in our own hearts and homes.

Getting out of the way and listening is not something that comes easily, either in art or in prayer.

cow. It finished opera for me for years.

What happens to what's happened? she asked the bishop. It's there. Waiting. But the time gate's closed, isn't it? Yes. But that can't take away what we've had. The good and the bad.

Why is it that some grown-ups just seem to go on getting dumber and dumber year by year instead of learning anything?

I don't go along with the people who say they'd never want to live their childhoods again; I treasure every bit of mine, all the pains as well as the joy of discovery. But I also love being a grownup. To be half a century plus is wonderfully exciting, because I haven't lost any of my past, and am free to stand on the rock of all that the past has taught me as I look towards the future.

If you're not grateful for what you already have, why should you be blessed with more...

You learn more from your tears than your smiles.

It is never crowded at the mountaintop.

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.