Quotes about Reflection

the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground.

Lose yourself in nature and find peace.

What you do with your resources in this life is your autobiography.

We tend to start with Earth and reason up toward Heaven, when instead we should start with Heaven and reason down toward Earth.

wisdom begins with the humility to say there's a great deal I don't understand.

A Greek philosopher said, 'All men think it is only the other man who is mortal'. The way we scurry about accumulating things is testimony to our unspoken doctrine that we are exceptions to the law of death. The events of September 11, 2001, were a shocking reminder to millions of Americans of something we should have already understood - our mortality.

Jake had never felt like such a fool for keeping a promise. He'd broken plenty of others he should have kept. Why had he kept one he should have broken?

Now think, my brother, you will be in Heaven very soon. Since last year a great number have gone home: before next year many more will have ascended to glory. Sitting up in those celestial seats, how shall we wish that we had lived below?" —Charles Spurgeon

Five minutes after we die, we'll know exactly how we should have lived. But God has given us His Word so that we don't have to wait to die to find out. And He's given us His Spirit to empower us to live that way now.

Shallow books make shallow men.)

The vigor of our spiritual life will be in exact proportion to the place held by the Bible in our life and thoughts." —George Müller

We don't like to think about death; yet, worldwide, 3 people die every second, 180 every minute, and nearly 11,000 every hour. If the Bible is right about what happens to us after death, it means that more than 250,000 people every day go either to Heaven or Hell.9 David said, "Show me, O Lord, my