Quotes About Reflection

Meditation is the soul's perspective glass, whereby, in her long remove, she discerneth God, as if He were nearer at hand.

God builds his temple in the heart on the ruins of churches and religions.

What is Zen? Zen is looking at things with the eye of God, that is, becoming the thing's eyes so that it looks at itself with our eyes.

We have had to learn that history is neither a God nor a redeemer.

Never be too proud to go onto your knees before God.

Like a mirror, God appears to be more and more a reflection of whoever it is that happens to be talking about God at the moment.

God answers first the prayers we should have prayed.

Thank God for the rain to wash the trash off the sidewalk.

This moment of dawning is called taqwa - God-consciousness, and ihsan - awareness. Suddenly you know that God can see you and knows you, even if you do not know or see Him.

Do your duty and think about God all day from morning to evening. See everything as God.

Oh, I don't talk about God.

I've gotten books published. I've met famous people that are very nice. I look back and I say, 'Wow. Thank you, God, for giving me this gift. And thank you for helping me to keep going.'

What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty.

Talk about God can become dreary and lackluster if God isn't in you.

Waiting on God means increasing purity.

It is not enough to ask yourself, 'Does God's Word permit me to use these good things of the world?' You must also inquire, 'Will it serve the glory of God?'and, 'Will it edify my fellow Christians?'

If in our Saturday pursuits we're far from God's presence, we're not in very good shape to worship Him on Sunday.

Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.

I'm in my 60s now, and just running almost 50 meters with explosives going on, it was kind of like, "Oh, my god! What am I doing here?"

I want God's Word to get into our bone marrow and change the way we walk...change what we do...change how we think.

For I bless God in the libraries of the learned and for all the booksellers in the world.

When we suffer, there will sometimes be mystery. Will there also be faith? Yes, if our attention is focused more on the cross, and on the God of the cross, than on the suffering itself.

God, how I ricochet between certainties and doubts.

One night a father overheard his son pray: Dear God, make me the kind of man my Daddy is. Later that night, the father prayed, Dear God, make me the kind of man my son wants me to be.