Quotes About Reflection

She, like so many other patients, was looking backward to her childhood, instead of forward. Not surprisingly, her neglected marriage dissolved.

we all must reach to free ourselves from the bondage of our illusions and defenses.

save our souls from being so blind that we pass unseeing when even the common thornbush is aflame with Your glory,

Lord Jesus, I do love You and most earnestly worship You. Help me today, please, to be even the palest reflection of that completeness that was and is Yours. Then I, like a tiny sliver of glass that glitters in the sunshine, will reflect back to the world Your godly brightness. Amen. —JEANIE GUSHEE

The creator of an apologia dares to speak personally … autobiographically and candidly and always vulnerably … about his or her engagement with the ideas and progress of ideas being presented.

O Jesus, keep me under the standard of Your cross. Let me not just look at You crucified, but have You living in my heart. Amen. —BERNADETTE OF LOURDES (1844

emphasize quite strongly the responsibility of all individual Christians to think carefully about issues of faith for ourselves,

Grant, I beseech Thee, O Lord, that by the observance of this Lent I may advance in the knowledge of the mystery of Christ, and show forth His mind in conduct worthy of my calling; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. —GELASIAN SACRAMENTARY

Father, I thank Thee for the night, And for the pleasant morning light, For rest, and food, and loving care, And all that makes the world so fair. Help me to do the things I should, To be to others kind and good, In all I do, in work and play, To grow more loving every day. Amen. —REBECCA J. WESTON (1835

Holy Lord, almighty and eternal Father, thank You for Your mercy that has protected me throughout this day. Let me pass through this night peacefully and with a pure mind and body, that rising with purity in the morning, I may serve You gratefully. Amen. —ALCUIN OF YORK (c. 735–804)

Test all statements (about God, theology, morality, faith, life) based on whether such statements would be credible in the kind of world in which two-year-olds have been thrown alive into pits of fire. I would hasten to add: the kind of world in which Jewish two-year-olds have been burned alive mainly by baptized Christians.24

Keep me, O Lord, while I tarry on this earth, in a serious seeking after Thee, and in an affectionate walking with Thee, every day of my life;

The journals may give you an opportunity to express your feelings without inviting further tables.

My father used to say, 'If you want to know the artist, look at the art'. He was usually talking about Stanley Matthews or Don Bradman when he said it.

The things I saw and things I missed- The many, many bloody things I fucking missed- It's just another morning; another morning when I wish I wasn't here.

But there are tears in my eyes and then I can't stop crying, stood there on that practice pitch in the dark, the tears rolling down my bloody cheeks, for once in my fucking life glad that I'm alone.

I've seen it before. Been here before. Played or managed here, six or seven times in six or seven years. Always a visitor, always away.

And I am still haunted by all the things I could have been.

I pulled myself up on my elbows and lay on my belly staring down into hell. There below me in the basin of Hunslet Carr, just 500 yards beneath me, was my England on the morning of Sunday 15 December in the year of Our Lord 1974, looking a thousand years younger and none the better.

The future, like the past, is written. It cannot be changed, but it can help to heal the wounds of the present.

I prayed for my mother and sister, for my uncles and aunts, for the friends I'd had, both good and bad, and last for my father wherever he was, Amen.

We all laughed and I remembered back when I thought I could live forever, back when I wanted to, back before I knew what a curse it really was.

Johnny Watters bends down, sponge in his hand, tongue in your ear, he whispers, "How shall we live, Brian? How shall we live?

There will always be times when we get beaten, said Bill Shankly. There will always be times when we lose. But the important thing is what we take away from that beating, what we learn when we lose. Because we'll always learn more from a loss than a win. So remember that and learn that, lads.