Quotes about Reflection
To give freedom is still more easy. It is not necessary to guide; it only requires to let go the rein. But to form a free government; that is, to temper together these opposite elements of liberty and restraint in one work, requires much thought, deep reflection, a sagacious, powerful, and combining mind.
— Edmund Burke
The wild gas, the fixed air is plainly broke loose: but we ought to suspend our judgments until the first effervescence is a little subsided, till the liquor is cleared, and until we see something deeper than the agitation of the troubled and frothy surface. [Alluding to Joseph Priestley's Observations on Air]
— Edmund Burke
We ought with reverence to approach that tremendous divinity, that loves courage, but commands counsel.
— Edmund Burke
In history, a great volume is unravelled for our instruction, drawing materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.
— Edmund Burke
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
— Edmund Burke
The more you read Scripture, the more you actually talk to God rather than think about fear.
— Edward Welch
No one cares about their reputation or their bank account when they find themselves in the shadow of death.
— Edward Welch
Anger looks down from the judge's perch; wisdom comes down from those heights and looks up from below. Humility captures it.
— Edward Welch
When in doubt, look at the Lord. Lift up your eyes (Numbers 21:4—9). That will be something it will take all your life to master, but what better time to start than now? Still, you can't imagine being an invited worshiper of God.
— Edward Welch
If the potential presence/arrival of another person can reveal the ungodliness in our behavior, how much more the coming of Christ himself?
— Edward Welch
Worship often takes our attention off ourselves completely. It isn't necessary to relate our worship of God to what he has done for us. God is great and worthy of our worship regardless of what he has done for us! Yet, having blessed the name of the Lord together, it strengthens our faith to remember what God has done for us, and also to hear what God is doing in other people.
— Edward Welch
Humility means that you acknowledge you don't know everything, and you might be especially confused when it comes to God.
— Edward Welch