Quotes About Reflection

She was a little given to rehearsing things in her mind, and having imaginary triumphs over people who had upset her in one way and another.

Great books make great readers,129 and exposure to lofty thoughts is a challenging and inspiring experience. Loftier thoughts than Isaiah's, recorded in chapters 40–66 of his prophecy, are scarcely to be found.

The instrument of leadership is the self, and mastery of the art of leadership comes from mastery of the self.

Learning agility," as they define it, "is the ability to reflect on experience and then engage in new behaviors based on those reflections.

At the end of life, each of us must answer the question, Whose story captured my soul?

Suffering always reveal idols of the heart.

So often, it's others around us who can see where God wants to grow us even before we see it ourselves.

Whenever you are in a critical temper, it is impossible to enter into communion with God.

If counseling is to be restored to the church, affection must be restored to reflection. If counseling is to be restored to the church, delight in God must be restored to doctrines about God. Savoring Christ must be restored to seeing Christ. Tender contrition must be restored to tough conviction. Communication with God must be restored to contending for God.

I'll take a bath and then I'll return." No, God is the bath.

You don't get to a better place with God until you recognize that where you are is not as good.

Too often Jesus Christ was not my Master but a bystander I visited with at church occasionally.

When we experience God for who He really is, we suddenly see ourselves for who we are.

God's Word is especially suited to directing those who want to focus primarily on the nature and direction of their own hearts.

Where is the church persevering in the priority of prayer?

Of course God went after Jonah, inquiring gently, "Do you do well to be angry?"10 However, insane from isolation, Jonah answers remarkably, "Yes, I do well to be angry, angry enough to die."11 Wow!

Turning to him, Spurgeon said, "If you had gone up the way you came down, you could have come down the way you went up.

true encounter with the God of the universe makes me feel gladly small, perfectly puny, and happily so, in my assigned place and actual size! A true experience of eternity leaves us feeling, as C. S. Lewis said, "the infinite relief of having for once got rid of all the silly nonsense about your own dignity which has made you restless and unhappy all your life."28

We don't worship so that preaching will be more impactful for us; we preach so that worship will be more impactful for God.

A continual diet of the Word satisfies, and it builds an appetite for more.

When we see the faults of others, we are to forgive and forbear in humility.

Because in prayer I expand my sense of how I have offended God. And I thereby lower my sense of how much others have offended me. Prayer is changing me.

as my great-uncle says, much of the

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise.... During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in laity; in both, superstition, bigotry, and persecution.