Quotes About Reflection

As I may or may not say to the Lord on Judgment Day, "You ask a lot of questions for someone who has so much explaining to do."

Perchance God will pity a race that sought the better angels of its nature and found only its lesser demons.

As important as it is to keep picking yourself up and brushing yourself off, it's also important to stop tripping over your own two feet.

Now and then it's good to list all the things you regularly do for which there was once a good reason.

Every day I go forth to seek my identity, feeling greatly blessed by the things I don't find it in.

Just as important as having a list of priorities is every once in a while starting from the bottom.

The thing about family disasters is that you never have to wait long before the next one puts the previous one into perspective.

I'm right-handed, whereas the fellow in my mirror is left-handed. I start shaving from the left; he starts from the right. Differences only in perception, but religious wars have been fought over such.

We are known to our friends by a look in our eyes that we never see in a mirror.

It's hard to make up your bed while you're still sleeping in it. Hard to make up your mind for the same reason.

In many areas of understanding, none so much as in our understanding of God, we bump up against a simplicity so profound that we must assign complexities to it to comprehend it at all. It is mindful of how we paste decals to a sliding glass door to keep from bumping our nose against it.

I identify more with people who ask each day for divine guidance than people equipped with a divine guidance system.

If minutes were kept of a family gathering, they would show that "Members not Present" and "Subjects Discussed" were one and the same.

There is part of us that stands in quiet witness to what we do, taking notes, waiting for a solitary moment to bring up the subject.

Eventually you realize that your whole life up to now has been preparation, and you begin to suspect that the rest might be preparation, too.

Sometimes two people need to step apart and make a space between that each might see the other anew, in a glance across a room or silhouetted against the moon.

From an aunt, long ago: "Death has come for me many times but finds me always in my lovely garden and leaves me there, I think, as an excuse to return."

God sends the dawn that we might see the might-have-beens that still might be.

There are subjects in which I wish to become knowledgeable, and subjects in which I wish to remain wise.

A painting is what you make of it, besides which, 'Moon, Weeping' has a better ring to it than 'Paintbrush, Dripping.'

I am never five minutes into stripping the clutter from my life before I start running into the clutter that is my life.

There are days in retirement that are the waking equivalent of a dreamless sleep, if you know what I mean.

The trick to liking who you are is not to hate too much the person it turned out you weren't.

God answers first the prayers we should have prayed.