Quotes about Reflection

God's way of getting your attention.

There's this thing that I like to call the RC Sproul principle of hermenutics. When you're reading the bible and you come across someone doing something really stupid, don't say to yourself "I'm glad I'm not him". Ask yourself "How am I that stupid?

John Newton looked across the kitchen table and said to William Cowper, "I'm not what I ought to be. I'm not what I want to be. I'm not what I hope to be. But thank God I'm not what I used to be.

Be absolutely aware that you are self-righteous and that this is the root of your problem.

Heaven will be filled with people who realize throughout eternity they have no right to be there.

face up to the seriousness — possibly a high-handed wickedness — of what they did; and still to forgive. This

In our case, God often raises up an enemy to see if we really want to be like Jesus.

If there is anything that will make us blush in heaven, it will be the realization of how much we were loved on this earth-but didn't appreciate it.

Our souls are not hungry for fame, comfort, wealth or power. Those rewards create almost as many problems as they solve. Our souls are hungry for meaning, for the sense that we have figured out how to live so that our lives matter so that the world will at least be a little different for our having passed through it.

God is like a mirror. The mirror never changes, but everybody who looks at it sees something different.

Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.

When I started to write 'Hannah's Child,' I realized that this had to be a book of passion, to have a certain kind of vulnerability. I think that people respond to that.