Quotes About Reflection

If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until it gets so ugly you can hardly bear to look at it.

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If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on their face

Mr Hemingway says a lot of things I don't understand,' Matilda said, 'Especially about men and women. But I loved it all the same.' 'A fine writer will always make you feel that', Mrs Phelps said. 'And don't worry about the bits you can't understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.

Alguna vez nos detenemos a pensar - se preguntó Matilda - dónde van nuestras profesoras cuando terminan de dar sus clases?

We shape our God, and then our God shapes us.

When I look far enough inside of you, I'll find me. When I look far enough inside me, I'll find you.

The question is: Why have these poems and prayers endured? Why, thousands of years later, do we still have them? And the answer you'll return to again and again is: They speak to our human experience.

Jesus responds to almost every question he's asked with...a question. What do you think? How do you read it? he asks, again and again and again.

Which leads to another question: When Matthew tells us that some of Jesus's followers doubted, does this undermine the story, or is this the exact kind of honesty that reflects how people actually are? When each of the Gospel writers includes the part about the women being witnesses, why risk it? What a strange thing to include knowing it would discredit their story, unless women actually were the first witnesses.

We are both large and small, strong and weak, formidable and faint, reflecting the image of the divine, and formed from dust.

Spirit often exposes the assumptions we've been living with that we haven't been aware of.

To fully appreciate the Bible, you have to let it be what it is.

Like a mirror, God appears to be more and more a reflection of whoever it is that happens to be talking about God at the moment.

The way of Jesus is a journey, not a destination.

When you come to the end of yourself, you are at that exact moment in the kind of place where you can fully experience the God who is for you.

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Can your story be retold? Can all of the various things that have happened to you and the things you have done you'd prefer to never think about again and the embarrassing parts and the painful parts—can all of it be retold in such a way that the worst parts become the most powerful, poignant parts?

What's the Best Question to Ask When You're Reading the Bible? Why did people find this important to write down?...Why did people write this down? What was going on in their world that this was important to them? Why did they feel the need to put words to this? Start with that question. Start with those questions. And see what happens.

You dance with the Bible, but you also interrogate it. You challenge it, question it, poke it, probe it. You let it get under your skin. We read it, and we let it read us, and then we turn the gem, again, and again, and again, seeing something new over and over and over again . . .

I believe the discussion itself is divine.

The question, then, the art, the task, the search, the challenge, the invitation is for you and me to become more and more the kind of people who are aware of the divine presence, attuned to the ruach

When we spent a day being fully present, we quickly discovered how much of the rest of our lives we weren't fully present.

Which takes us back to this creation poem, which grounds all creativity in the questions that are asked of all of us: What kind of world are we making? Which always leads to the pressing personal question: What kind of life am I creating?