Quotes About Reflection

after a man passes 60 , his mischief is mainly in his head

Well, if you live long enough, you lose a lot. Just as long as you don't throw them away. Whatever you loose, you'll find again, but what you throw away you never get back. -Oibore (Enishi's dad) to Yahiko and Misao

I'd never compared myself to being dead before, but it was the only thing I could think of. The only thing worse than the situation I faced.

I wasn't ready to feel as bad as I did. I'd never felt so lonely.

And I also thought that Richard Nixon was the greatest political education we have ever had, but it looks like we need to relearn them again.

If you see me getting smaller, I'm leaving, don't be grieving, just gotta get away from here. If you see me getting smaller, don't worry, I'm in no hurry, I've got the right to disappear.

If people are seeing us more than they are seeing Christ, then something is out of balance.

Sometimes I wonder whether I have felt everything I'm ever going to feel

I hoped being aware and appreciative would never leave me. I guessed that feeling that way in the moment was appreciation enough.

We can teach what we know, but ultimately, we will reproduce what we are.

Prayer is thinking deeply about something in the presence of God.

The more you continue to read Scripture, the more you begin to think as He thinks and act as He acts. And that's how, over time, you gain the wisdom of the ages.

I've heard someone say that faith can be defined as living in advance what you will understand only in reverse.

Only you can keep yourself spiritually healthy by feeding yourself. No one can do it for you by proxy.

Wisdom teaches you the lesson before you make the mistake. On the other hand, consequences demand that you make the mistake first. Only then will it teach you the lesson. Wisdom puts up the fence at the top of the cliff; Consequences visits you in the hospital when you're in traction . . . after they've scraped you up from the cliff's bottom.

God is not cruel, but He is not lenient. He is true; He is not safe. He is unchanging; therefore we must change. We must learn in order to succeed. Our failures do not influence our grades, but our unwillingness to learn from them does. I

Do you want to know the biggest difference between Consequences and Wisdom? Wisdom teaches you the lesson before you make the mistake. On the other hand, consequences demand that you make the mistake first.

If you can figure out how to learn from the bad as well as from the good, you'll learn twice as much in life.'' That's why God put into the Bible raw, unedited accounts of men and women behaving both wisely and foolishly.

At the heart of journaling is an easy-to-remember acrostic: SOAP. S = Scripture O = Observation A = Application P = Prayer

The question is never ''Does God speak?'' but rather ''Am I listening?'' To best hear what God has to say to you, you must still your heart. Set aside your pressing demands. Turn off all your electronic distractions. Rarely does God shout to make himself heard!

One of the greatest lessons I'm learning (and yes, I am still learning it) is that rest is not sin.

Quietude, which some men cannot abide because it reveals their inward poverty, is as a palace of cedar to the wise, for along its hallowed courts the King in His beauty deigns to walk." CHARLES H. SPURGEON

Creative affinity means you become increasingly more like that which you love the most.

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self." MAY SARTON