Quotes About Reflection

When I was your age, television was called books.

the friend neither sang of grief, nor open his heart to me he muttled in his inquisition and wasted his life and his dreams

I've been doing a lot of learning from mistakes, first and foremost, and building off that.

The scientific literature shows that hunger, anger, loneliness, tiredness, pain, and stress are common "preconditions for poor decision making." So Shubin Stein uses an acronym, HALT-PS, as a reminder to pause when those factors might be impairing his judgment and postpone important decisions until he's in a state in which his brain is more likely to function well.* This is our seventh technique for reducing avoidable stupidity.

Blaise Pascal: "All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.

Christian, hath not God secretly instructed thee by his Spirit from the Word, how to read the shorthand of his providence? Dost

Prayer must be the key of the morning and lock of the night.

Well, Christian, prize thou the word, fed savourily on the word, whether it be dished forth in a sermon at the public, or in a conference with some Christian friend in private, or in a more secret duty of reading and meditation by thy solitary self.

The hound, when he hath lost the scent, hunts backward and so recovers it, and pursues his game with louder cry than ever. Thus, Christian, when thy hope is at a loss for the life to come, and thou questionest thy salvation in another world, then look backward and see what God hath already done for thee in this world.

Thou knowest not but, as Isaac met his bride when he went into the fields to meditate, so thou mayest meet thy beloved while walking by thy meditations in this garden of the promises.

We need do no more to lose our souls than to seek ourselves.

Prayer is a solemn work as any thou canst go about in thy whole lifetime.

Pray often rather than very long at a time. It is hard to be very long in prayer and not slacken in our affections. Those watches which are made to go longer than ordinary at one winding do commonly lose towards the end.

Prayer is nothing but the promise reversed, or God's word formed into an argument, and retorted by faith upon God again. Know,

And so when thou art tempted to any sin, look not on it as a single sin, but as having all other sins in its belly.

The true doctor studies harder than the freshman, because, as he knows more of learning, so by that knowledge he un derstands his own deficiency better; for the higher he ascends the hill of learning, the more his prospect en largeth, while the other, standing at the bottom, thinks he knows all in his little.

Ecclesia est Christus explicatus—the church is nothing but Christ displayed.

He is the best student in divinity that studies most upon his knees[26]

Had I not best look up to him, by whose blessing I live more than by my bread?

It is a good gloss Augustine hath upon Esau's tears Heb. 12:16, 17. —Flevet quòd perdidit, non quòd vendidit —he wept that he lost the blessing, not that he sold it.

I keep [a] subject constantly before me," Newton once remarked, "and wait 'till the first dawnings open slowly, by little and little, into a full and clear light.

time cannot do to ordinary things what we timelessly do to one another.

until summer becomes ein Zimmer in einem Traum -- a room in a dream.

I'd like to look below my eyes and see not language staring back at me, not sentences or single words or awkward pen lines, but a surface clear and burnished as glass.