Quotes about Reflection

The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.

I wonder if anyone who needs a snappy song service can really appreciate the meaning of the cross.

We need people, Juliet, to show us our selfishness, to extract the ugliness that reveals itself in our hearts.

Study hard, for the well is deep, and our brains are shallow.

O what a blessed day that will be when I shall . . . stand on the shore and look back on the raging seas I have safely passed; when I shall review my pains and sorrows, my fears and tears, and possess the glory which was the end of all!

To live among such excellent helps as our libraries afford, to have so many silent wise companions whenever we please.

When I compare my slow and unprofitable life with the frequent and wonderful mercies received, it shames me, it silences me, and leaves me inexcusable.

O]ur applications are quicker about our sufferings, than our sins(77)[.]

They will understand a familiar speech, who hear a sermon as if it were nonsense, and they have far greater help for the application of it to themselves. And withal you will hear their objections, and know where it is that Satan hath most advantage over them, and what it is that stands up against the truth; and so may be able to shew them their errors, confute their objections, and more effectually convince them.

As all our senses are the inlets of sin, so they are become the inlets of sorrow (99).

If and worms'-meat must have such respect, think, then, what reverence thou shouldst approach thy Maker (569).

Consideration doth, as it were, open the door between the head and the heart: the understanding having received truths, lays them up in the memory now, consideration is the conveyer of theme from thence to the affections (571).