Quotes about Reflection

As such, we should pray, as Macrina Weiderkehr prayed so eloquently, "O God, help me to believe the truth about myself, no matter how beautiful.

The shame I feel as a Catholic Christian, aware in detail of the ways that the Church sanctified the hatred of Jews, not only betraying Jesus but tilling the soil out of which would come the worst crime in history, is shame not only at what my people did, but at what I can now admit I might well have done myself.

Time to plant trees is when you're young, So you will have them to walk among - So, aging, you can walk in shade That you and time together made.

At the end of life, each of us must answer the question, Whose story captured my soul?

Suffering always reveal idols of the heart.

So often, it's others around us who can see where God wants to grow us even before we see it ourselves.

Whenever you are in a critical temper, it is impossible to enter into communion with God.

If counseling is to be restored to the church, affection must be restored to reflection. If counseling is to be restored to the church, delight in God must be restored to doctrines about God. Savoring Christ must be restored to seeing Christ. Tender contrition must be restored to tough conviction. Communication with God must be restored to contending for God.

I'll take a bath and then I'll return." No, God is the bath.

You don't get to a better place with God until you recognize that where you are is not as good.

Too often Jesus Christ was not my Master but a bystander I visited with at church occasionally.

When we experience God for who He really is, we suddenly see ourselves for who we are.