Quotes About Reflection

We worship God through our questions.

I had made myself the center of my own existence and had my back turned to God.

The more I contemplate God, the more God looks on me. The more I pray to him, the more he thinks of me too.

Every pure thought is a glimpse of God.

God has a sense of humor. If you don't believe me, tomorrow go to wal-mart and just look at people.

We ought to muse upon the things of God, because we thus get the real nutriment out of them.

Thank God for books and music and things I can think about." --Charlie Gordan

Always try to see yourself through God's eyes.

If you're going down the street and you're going the wrong way, remember - God permits U-turns.

We become contemplatives when God discovers Himself in us.

My God, I pray better to you by breathing and walking than by talking, just as in choir I sing best when I am thinking about something else, or better still, praying.

If your god never disagrees with you, you might just be worshipping an idealized version of yourself.

God has a story to tell about you. A major part of it is you telling yours.

Evidence for or against God, if it is there, saturates every moment of the experience of existence, every employment of reason, every act of consciousness, every encounter with the world around us.

I'm not a comic book character. I'm not Indiana Jones or Bond, I'm a flesh and blood guy who is ageing and changing. I don't have to do what I did in '93. I couldn't do it and thank God.

I pray a lot. I pray that God will show me what to do and will guide me and lead me.

Many a professing Christian is a stumbling-block because his worship is divided. On Sunday he worships God; on weekdays God has little or no place in his thoughts.

Christ's crucifixion was on a hill, by a road, where everybody who passed by could not only see his pain, but also his shame. It was not done in a shadow, hidden away somewhere.

God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers?

We beseech [God] to pardon our national and other transgressions.

God, great principle of all minor principles, God, who is Himself without a principle, could not conceive Himself, if, in order to do it, He required to know His own principle.

The New Year has come to us. / God be blessed for it.

We have to keep asking ourselves: 'What does it all mean? What is God trying to tell us? How are we called to live in the midst of all this?' Without such questions our lives become numb and flat.

Less, less of self each day, And more, my God, of Thee!