Quotes About Reflection

I get asked, 'How can you have such failures in your films?' Well, what else is life about? There's some sense of constant failure in something. Humor gives you a distance from it.

Place your mind before the mirror of eternity! Place your soul in the brilliance of glory! And transform your entire being into the image of the Godhead Itself through contemplation.

Faith is not a conclusion you reach...it's a journey you live.

Listen and attend with the ear of your heart.

Be attentive to the voice of grace.

Solitude is the place of purification.

Without the Blessed Sacrament a position like mine would be intolerable.

True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.

Always consider your intellect to be lacking; otherwise too much faith in it surely leads to error.

Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith.

Doubt everything. Find your own light.

Keep studying the scriptures, keep doing the things that build your faith in Jesus Christ and then notice the wise choices you are naturally drawn to make

The Holy Rosary is the storehouse of countless blessings.

An unexamined faith is not worth having, for it can be true only by accident.

God speaks silently, God speaks in your heart; if your heart is noisy, chattering, you will not hear.

Where there is no longer any opportunity for doubt, there is no longer any opportunity for faith either.

Go up to the mountain, go up to the glen, where silence will touch you, and heartbreak will mend.

Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.

All my words are but chaff next to the faith of a simple man.

See the Face of God in everyone.

The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.

At Oxford University, the certainties of my atheist faith (and atheism is a faith) began to crumble

Faith is the soul's adventure.

I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.