Quotes About Reflection

God's church is not a stage for us to perform on but a garden for us to grow in.

I ought to spend the best hours of the day in communion with God. It is my noblest and most fruitful employment, and is not to be thrust into any corner.

I just thank God for all of the blessings.

The Providence of God is like Hebrew words-it can be read only backwards.

Listening to God is far more important than giving Him your ideas.

A theological thought can breathe only in the atmosphere of dialogue with God.

When I am tempted to complain about God's lack of presence, I remind myself that God has much more reason to complain about my lack of presence.

One question you never want to ask God is, 'What's wrong with me - because He'll tell you.

The longer I live the more conscious I am of human frailty, and of the constant, overwhelming need we all have of God's grace.

O God, since thou made Zhou Yu, why did thou also create Zhuge Liang?

Men always makes gods in their own image.

We are called to reflect the Lord's beauty through our lives as much as through our words, and God will use this in His own perfect time.

We must seek, in studying God, to be led to God.

Symmetry is for God, not for us.

When we see a beautiful object, a beautiful garden, or a beautiful flower, let us think that there we behold a ray of the infinite beauty of God, who has given existence to that object.

The most shattering thought I've ever had is my personal accountability to God one day

The question of whether it's God's green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if so, one is reminded with some regularity that He may be dying.

Look whether it be indifferently, as well for sins secret as open, what you find to be your best cordials to comfort you, whether God's Word, or natural means.

I took a day to search for God, And found Him not. But as I trod By rocky ledge, through woods untamed, Just where one scarlet lily flamed, I saw His foot print in the sod.

O, God of wonder, enlarge my capacity to be amazed at what is amazing, and end my attraction to the insignificant.

I listen to the wind, to the wind of my soul Where I end up, well, I think only God really knows.

Give beauty back, beauty, beauty, beauty, back to God, beauty's self and beauty's giver.

Where is our acknowledgement of God if our thoughts are fixed on the glamour of our garments?

But the things that we feel most deeply we ought to learn to be silent about, at least until we have talked them over thoroughly with God.