Quotes About Reflection

You, Nazhuret, once of Sordaling, are the lens of the world: the lens through which the world may become aware of itself. The world, on the other hand, is the only lens in which you can see yourself. It is both lenses together that make vision.

You have taught me to be still, so that I could move properly. You have taught me to listen, so that I can speak properly. You have taught me to see, so that I might not always be seen.

I discover that waiting may be accomplished in divers ways. And stillness has many . . . appearances, as does warmth.

sages leave speculation to the idle, and contemplate Nature.

One must know how to disregard the vehicle of the idea in order to consider its motivation alone.

There's this thing that I like to call the RC Sproul principle of hermenutics. When you're reading the bible and you come across someone doing something really stupid, don't say to yourself "I'm glad I'm not him". Ask yourself "How am I that stupid?

Death was like the thirteenth person in the household, crowding out all other thoughts, making it hard to breathe.

Surely He does not give us hearts so we may spend our lives ignoring them.

No Through Road All in vain, I will cease now My long absorption with the plough, With the tame and the wild creatures And man united with the earth. I have failed after many seasons To bring truth to birth, And nature's simple equations In the mind's precincts do not apply. But where to turn? Earth endures After the passing, necessary shame Of winter, and the old lie Of green places beckons me still From the new world, ugly and evil, That men pry for in truth's name.

Seated at table - no need for the fracture of the room's silence; noiselessly they conversed.

John Newton looked across the kitchen table and said to William Cowper, "I'm not what I ought to be. I'm not what I want to be. I'm not what I hope to be. But thank God I'm not what I used to be.

Be absolutely aware that you are self-righteous and that this is the root of your problem.

Heaven will be filled with people who realize throughout eternity they have no right to be there.

face up to the seriousness – possibly a high-handed wickedness – of what they did; and still to forgive. This

In our case, God often raises up an enemy to see if we really want to be like Jesus.

If there is anything that will make us blush in heaven, it will be the realization of how much we were loved on this earth-but didn't appreciate it.

Instead of dissipating our life in mere commotion, let us endeavor to recollect it so that our activity may be more profound, more consistent and lasting, and directed to eternity.

He warmed to his own wounds as others warm themselves beside a fire

All my days have I grown up among the Sages and I have found naught better for a man than silence.

To prevent your persona from becoming a prison you must experience your inner self stripped of its outer trappings.

Can you see the holiness in those things you take for granted – a paved road or a washing machine? If you concentrate on finding what is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul.

Our souls are not hungry for fame, comfort, wealth, or power. Those rewards create almost as many problems as they solve. Our souls are hungry for meaning, for the sense that we have figured out how to live so that our lives matter so the world will be at least be a little bit different for our having passed through it.

Our souls are not hungry for fame, comfort, wealth or power. Those rewards create almost as many problems as they solve. Our souls are hungry for meaning, for the sense that we have figured out how to live so that our lives matter so that the world will at least be a little different for our having passed through it.

God is like a mirror. The mirror never changes, but everybody who looks at it sees something different.