Quotes About Reflection

My policy is, why wait? If you're going to look back and laugh, you might as well start laughing.

I know that I'm fond of saying this repeatedly, but the best thing about the past is that it's over and when it's not over something is amiss in your mind. It's not the original event or perpetrator that's making you remember—it's you, inside your own mind, holding on to terrible memories. None of us are exempt from this.

Whenever people have trouble letting go of good things or bad things, it's because they are associated to the memory. It doesn't matter what it is, it's just like being there. If you're holding on to bad memories, it's now time to look at them and shrink them down.

Look at the last image and then run it backward to the beginning so that people walk backward, so that the sounds are like playing a tape recorder backwards. In fact, if you can, spin your feelings in the reverse direction.

Study hard, for the well is deep, and our brains are shallow.

To live among such excellent helps as our libraries afford, to have so many silent wise companions whenever we please.

Remember with whom thou hast to do: what canst thou expect from dust but levity; or from corruption, but defilement(33)?

When I compare my slow and unprofitable life with the frequent and wonderful mercies received, it shames me, it silences me, and leaves me inexcusable.

M]editation is the life of of most other duties; and the view of heaven is the life of meditation (559).

The true knowing, living Christian complains more frequently and more bitterly of the wants and woes within him, than without him(55).

It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good, but the well-reading of a few, could he be sure to have the best.

O]ur applications are quicker about our sufferings, than our sins(77)[.]

As all our senses are the inlets of sin, so they are become the inlets of sorrow (99).

Consideration doth, as it were, open the door between the head and the heart: the understanding having received truths, lays them up in the memory now, consideration is the conveyer of theme from thence to the affections (571).

As Socrates said when his wife first railed at him, and next threw a vessel of foul water upon him, "I thought when I heard the thunder, there would come rain

a defaulting not from prescribed activity but from prescribed being'.

If you stand to close to your reflection you do not see the full picture of who you are. When one heart speaks, other hearts cannot help but listen. Always keep your mouth closed when cleaning the toilet. All from my book.

No man is demolished but by himself.

Take a note of that his Lordship says he will turn it over in what he is pleased to call his mind.

He also came to realize that he had been so busy attempting to do things for God he had not spent time enjoying fellowship with God.

What's been happening in your life lately? What's the greatest challenge in your life right now? What's the most significant thing happening in your life right now? You sound like you're carrying a heavy load. Is there any way I can help? How can I pray for you?

If we won't be serious about dealing with our sin,we cannot expect to grow in our faith. If you want to move to a new level with God,take an inventory of what God has told you about your sin and consider what you've been doing about it.

Writing is the place where I can be as bold and compassionate and wise as I choose.

Nothing is sadder than an old whore.