Quotes about Reflection
The more I contemplate God, the more God looks on me. The more I pray to him, the more he thinks of me too.
— Bernard of Clairvaux
For I have learnt for a fact that nothing so effectively obtains, retains and regains grace, as that we should always be found not high-minded before God, but filled with holy fear.
— Bernard of Clairvaux
We ought to muse upon the things of God, because we thus get the real nutriment out of them.
— Charles Spurgeon
We become contemplatives when God discovers Himself in us.
— Thomas Merton
My God, I pray better to you by breathing and walking than by talking, just as in choir I sing best when I am thinking about something else, or better still, praying.
— Thomas Merton
If your god never disagrees with you, you might just be worshipping an idealized version of yourself.
— Timothy Keller
God has a story to tell about you. A major part of it is you telling yours.
— Tosca Lee
Evidence for or against God, if it is there, saturates every moment of the experience of existence, every employment of reason, every act of consciousness, every encounter with the world around us.
— David Bentley Hart
I pray a lot. I pray that God will show me what to do and will guide me and lead me.
— Dolly Parton
Many a professing Christian is a stumbling-block because his worship is divided. On Sunday he worships God; on weekdays God has little or no place in his thoughts.
— DL Moody
Christ's crucifixion was on a hill, by a road, where everybody who passed by could not only see his pain, but also his shame. It was not done in a shadow, hidden away somewhere.
— Francis Schaeffer
Think against your feelings; argue yourself out of the gloom they have spread; look up from your problems to the God of the gospel.
— JI Packer