Quotes About Reflection

Don't boast about your hardheartedness or refusal to shed tears. Instead, pray that God will give you a tender heart which will sympathize with others.

I know I am at the end. I shall never get better, dear.

I find that we are all such sinners that it is better to leave the judging to God.

Are you willing to go the extra mile in this new year to know God?

Sometimes when we're waiting for God to speak, He's waiting for us to listen.

Don't create theology about God so that you can feel better about Him.

It is a maxim that will endure: To truly know the living God, this begets humility.

Before you go to sleep, run over your personal world mentally and thank God for everyone and everything.

God is a fountain flowing into itself.

I was like, 'Oh, my God, girls are so pretty and soft. No stubble burn! What am I doing with guys?' [I] haven't dipped back since, but I was very appreciative of the experience.

I sometimes get up at night when I can't sleep and walk down into my library and open one of my books and read a paragraph and say, 'My God, did I write that?

God, give me a good humiliation every day. It's good for the soul and it's good for the ego.

There was nothing wrong with shouting at God.

God has allowed some magical reversal to occur, so that you see the scorpion pit as an object of desire, and all the beautiful expanse around it as dangerous and swarming with snakes.

It is not my business to think about myself. My business is to think about God. It is for God to think about me.

We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.

All the prayers in the Scripture you will find to be reasoning with God, not a multitude of words heaped together.

My family never missed a visit in eight months, ever. I cried coming out. I didn't cry coming in. There's a big difference. I believe that God put me there for a reason, Incarceration is serious

Humility is the altar upon which God wishes that we should offer Him His sacrifices.

Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will.

I feel strongly that the God we meet in solitude is always the God who calls us to community.

There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford.

The slave of the belly ponders the menu with which to celebrate the feast. The servant of God, however, thinks of the graces that may enrich him.

God sometimes allows us to feel anger so we'll recognize when we're being mistreated. But even when we experience true injustices in our lives, we must not vent our anger in an improper way.