Quotes About Reflection

Meditation sends us into our ordinary world with greater perspective and balance.

Thomas Merton writes that if we have meditated on the events of the Passion but have not meditated on Dachau and Auschwitz, our perception of God at work in present times is incomplete.

Worship may produce an outward change, but our inner condition will eventually be revealed

Spiritual disciplines answer the shallow world.

I determined to learn to pray so that my experience conforms to the words of Jesus rather than try to make his words conform to my impoverished experience.

Sorting out which prejudices are to be criticized or rejected is not the beginning point of inquiry, but an end product, an achievement of inquiry.

Peirce shifts our attention from the origins of ideas and hypotheses to their consequences for our conduct.

to highlight the immorality of Germans abandoning their moral duty to think.

Settle yourself in solitude and you will come upon Him in yourself. —TERESA OF ÁVILA

Your prayer must be turned inwards, not towards a God of Heaven nor towards a God far off, but towards God who is closer to you than you are aware.

Silence is one of the deepest disciplines of the Spirit simply because it puts the stopper on all self-justification. One of the fruits of silence is the freedom to let God be our justifier. We don't need to straighten others out.

The mind will always take on an order conforming to that upon which it concentrates.

In contemporary society our Adversary majors in three things: noise, hurry, and crowds. If he can keep us engaged in "muchness" and "manyness," he will rest satisfied. Psychiatrist Carl Jung once remarked, "Hurry is not of the Devil; it is the Devil."1

Leo Tolstoy observes, "Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.

Leo Tolstoy observes, "Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself."6

It is important to recognize this fact and be easy with yourself. This time will pass—sooner than you think. Rather than trying to pray in some fanciful isolation that you will never find, discover God in your times with your baby. God will become real to you through your baby.

Precious Savior, why do I fear your scrutiny? Yours is an examen of love. Still, I am afraid…afraid of what may surface. Even so, I invite you to search me to the depths so that I may know myself—and you—in fuller measure.  Ã¢â'¬â€Amen.

all authentic prayer is a scraping of the heart whereby the dregs of the soul are offered up to God.

Solitude The creation of an open, empty space in our lives by purposefully abstaining from interaction with other human beings, so that, freed from competing loyalties, we can be found by God The

The twentieth-century Lutheran martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer, when asked why he meditated, replied, "Because I am a Christian.

Thomas à Kempis writes, "It is easier to be silent altogether than to speak with moderation."4

In contemporary society our Adversary majors in three things: noise, hurry, and crowds.

Remember that the key to the Discipline of study is not reading many books, but experiencing what we do read.

Thomas à Kempis, "To have no opinion of ourselves, and to think always well and highly of others, is great wisdom and perfection.