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Quotes About Reflection

I pray to the God within me that He will give me the strength to ask Him the right questions.
~ Elie Wiesel
I don't understand how people can believe in God, even when I myself think of him everyday.
~ Emile M. Cioran
Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the throne of God when the simple come into their kingdom.
~ Evelyn Waugh
The voice of humility is God's music, and the silence of humility is God's rhetoric.
~ Francis Quarles
God would behold in you a simplicity which will contain so much the more of His wisdom as it contains less of your own.
~ Francois Fenelon
My story is important not because it is mine, God knows, but because if I tell it anything like right, the chances are you will recognize that in many ways it is also yours.
~ Frederick Buechner
We created god in our own image and likeness!
~ George Carlin
I found it better for my soul to be humble before the mysteries o' God's dealings, and not be making a clatter about what I could never understand.
~ George Eliot
Good souls many will one day be horrified at the things they now believe of God.
~ George MacDonald
Perhaps history is a thing that would stop happening if God held His breath, or could be imagined as turning away to think of something else.
~ Herbert Butterfield
Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.
~ Iris Murdoch
One of the ways we can bear the image of God well is to see things in others they don't see themselves and call that out of them.
~ Isaac
God made us thinking beings, and he guides our minds as we think things out in his presence.
~ J. I. Packer
There is no place in the world but contains some trace of God.
~ Jacques Maritain
This is why I am calling you to See as God Sees every moment, for it is the only way to release the world you thought was there, in favor of a world that reflects who you really are.
~ James F. Twyman
Those physical difficulties which you cannot account for, be very slow to arraign; for he that would be wiser than Nature would be wiser than God.
~ Jeremy Bentham
In our depths, I think we all feel very small in relation to the greater universe and God.
~ Jessi Colter
When I first went to prison, I was even questioning where, God, where are you?
~ Jim Bakker
Were not the eye made to receive the rays of the sun, it could not behold the sun; if the peculiar power of God lay not in us, how could the godlike charm us?
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Let God talk to you and minister to you, where you get honest with Him - here's what I do well and don't do well; here are my shortcomings, my strengths, and my gifts.
~ John C. Maxwell
But a faithful believer will in all circumstances mediate on the mercy and fatherly goodness of God.
~ John Calvin
I neglect God and his angles for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.
~ John Donne
I listen and talk to God daily.
~ John Galliano
With silence only as their benediction, God's angels come Where in the shadow of a great affliction, The soul sits dumb!
~ John Greenleaf Whittier