Quotes about Reflection

The same is true when it comes to getting healthy. You look in the mirror and believe that, with God's help, you'll get healthy even though the person staring back at you is exhausted, stressed, out of shape, or overweight.

Today we often feel we must "get away" from our daily routine in order to worship God, but that is only because we haven't learned to practice his presence all the time. Brother Lawrence found it easy to worship God through the common tasks of life; he didn't have to go away for special spiritual retreats.

In our final moments we all realize that relationships are what life is all about. Wisdom is learning that truth sooner rather than later.

We shape our God, and then our God shapes us.

The question is: Why have these poems and prayers endured? Why, thousands of years later, do we still have them? And the answer you'll return to again and again is: They speak to our human experience.

Jesus responds to almost every question he's asked with...a question. What do you think? How do you read it? he asks, again and again and again.

This is how you remember God: you bless those who need it the most in the same way that God blessed you when you needed it the most.

Which leads to another question: When Matthew tells us that some of Jesus's followers doubted, does this undermine the story, or is this the exact kind of honesty that reflects how people actually are? When each of the Gospel writers includes the part about the women being witnesses, why risk it? What a strange thing to include knowing it would discredit their story, unless women actually were the first witnesses.

We are both large and small, strong and weak, formidable and faint, reflecting the image of the divine, and formed from dust.

The way of Jesus is a journey, not a destination.

When you come to the end of yourself, you are at that exact moment in the kind of place where you can fully experience the God who is for you.

You can capture a butterfly, and pin its wings down to study the colors and shape and design, but the moment that butterfly is still and you're able to make the most precise and detailed observations about that butterfly is the moment the butterfly can't fly anymore.