Quotes About Reflection

I may not be where I want to be, but thank God I am not where I used to be.

Thank God for the journey.

The Word of God was not written to satisfy our curiosity; it was written to # change our lives.

We should not accept in silence the benefactions of God, but return thanks for them.

My God, I have come with the seeds of questions. I planted them, and they never flowered.

Humbly serving all with their beauty, flowers say more to us about God than anything else. Each one brings a message that the Heavenly Father is right here.

Explore daily the will of God.

We are afraid that if we stop and really look at God in his Word, we might discover that he evokes greater awe and demands deeper worship than we are ready to give him.

Behold God beholding you...and smiling.

Inspiration comes only to those who seek it with humility toward their own achievements and reverence toward the achievements of God.

When I have found intense pain relieved, a weary brain soothed, and calm refreshing sleep obtained by a cigar, I have felt grateful to God, and have blessed His name.

It is when our hearts are stirred that we become most aware of what they contain.

Teach me, 0 God, not to torture myself, not to make a martyr out of myself through stifling reflection, but rather teach me to breathe deeply in faith.

When you read God's Word, you must constantly be saying to yourself, "It is talking to me, and about me".

God will not make you do something you don't want to do - He will just make you wish you had.

Every morning I wake up and thank God.

You must go on to remind yourself of God - who God is, and what God is, and what God has done, and what God has pledged Himself to do.

It hit me that the students were talking about me, not God. I was standing before a holy God and robbing Him of the glory that was rightfully His.

Worship helps us find who we are and why God has placed us here on the earth. When we bow in God's presence with worship, only then are we made complete.

The essence of idolatry is the entertainment of thoughts about God that are unworthy of Him.

If you feel far from God right now, guess who moved? You're only a decision away from reconnecting.

I lost a very dear friend who lived with AIDS for about 17 years. Rejecting early treatments that were iffy, he thought he saved himself. I really miss him a lot.

Sometimes in the contrast of the night, we can best see the glory of God.

So we make stories of our own, in fevered and envious imitation of our Maker, hoping that we'll tell, by chance, what God left untold. And finishing our tale, come to understand why we were born.