Quotes About Reflection

Religion is a form of nourishment. It is difficult to appreciate the flavor and food-value of something one has never eaten.

Having examined three thousand haiku poems - two persimmons.

Feel what it's like to truly starve, and I guarantee that you'll forever think twice before wasting food.

I would like to have you quote me, Erich von Stroheim, as having said on this day of this month of this year this one thing: you Americans are living on baby food.

There is one thought for the field, another for the house. I would have my thoughts, like wild apples, to be food for walkers, and will not warrant them to be palatable if tasted in the house.

I'm sure one of the frustrations of being a Western enthusiast of Japanese food and culture is you're confronted every day with the absolute certainty that you will die ignorant.

... but food eaten quickly isn't food.

I don't think I've ever read a food piece or a food book.

Eating a meal with full awareness can be a powerful, enlightening, and healing experience.

"I meditate." That's like saying "I eat." Think of all the food there is! And there are almost as many varieties of mediation.

Food ... is the topmost taper on the golden candelabrum of existence.

We are using the food as a doorway to understanding the rest of our lives.

My sin burdened me heavily. But when I measured it against Your Grace, O Lord, Your forgiveness came out greater.

Forgiveness is setting the prisoner free, only to find out that the prisoner was me.

The more you know yourself, the more you forgive yourself.

The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.

I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.

Self-forgiveness is essential to self-healing.

It's hard to forget, but forgiveness is something you do for yourself.

I can pardon everybody's mistakes except my own.

Forgiveness changes the way we remember.

Don't let the sun go down on me.

Sin scorches us most after it comes under the scrutinizing light of God's forgiveness and not before

Forgiveness is a favor we do for ourselves, not a favor we do to the other party.