Quotes About Reflection

I shall soon be laid in the quiet grave--thank God for the quiet grave--O! I can feel the cold earth upon me--the daisies growing over me--O for this quiet--it will be my first.

Why should The Beatles give more? Didn't they give everything on God's earth for ten years? Didn't they give themselves?

One reason why we fail to hear God speak is that we are not attentive. We suffer from what might be called 'spiritual mindlessness.'

I wish to God I knew as much about writing as I did when I was 19. I was absolutely certain about most things then. Also, I suspect, more accurate.

It's a basic fact about being human that sometimes the self seems to just melt away.

The moral perfections of the Deity, the more attentively, we consider, the more perfectly still shall we know them.

God is the place where I do not remember the rest.

The things of God are of deep import; and time, and experience, and careful and ponderous and solemn thoughts can only find them out.

Repentance is a thing that cannot be trifled with every day. Daily transgression and daily repentance is not that which is pleasing in the sight of God.

Instead of blaming everyone and everything else for your problems, pray for God to help you take an inventory of what's been on your mind so you can think about what you've been thinking about.

There are times when God leaves huge question marks as tools in our lives to stretch our our faith.

What would a nontoxic god think of your creative goals? Might such a god really exist?

...God knows you can have complication and difficulty without any compensating depth or seriousness

Thank God for my hobgoblin, small-minded consistency.

by the mercy of God all the ideas of youth are reversible!

God is a questioner; Man is a philosopher.

A fool will seek revenge, the wise man will allow God's karma.

A true understanding of who God is, who we are, and the missionary task should drive us to our knees and keep us there.

If you believe in God you get to the point where (you feel) "Yeah, you know what, God forgave my sins but I still have to forgive myself."

If God made us in his image we have certainly returned the compliment.

The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

God is silent. Now if only man would shut up.

I am not where I need to be, but thank God I am not where I used to be.

I'm always talking to God about whether or not he exists - that's how I know I'm a theist.