Quotes About Reflection

There are some years in our lives that we would not want to live again. But even these years will pass away, and the lessons learned will be a future blessing.

How did a nice girl like me get into a mess like this?

When we look back on the decades of our life we see that the seemingly insignificant things we do over and over actually weave the pattern of our lives.

I've never been lonely, just alone. I think people who can't stand being alone are silly. How do they know who they are or what they're like if they're never alone?

The scandal of the evangelical mind is that there is not much of an evangelical mind.

In their addresses, both Graham and Stott paused for self-criticism. Graham confessed that it had been too easy for him "to identify the Gospel with . . . one political program or culture."[172

It's uh, pathetic. To realize at my age that I actually had promise, a life of passion in front of me, and that I threw it away for the security of what? Numbness. It's

Dr. Neal Roese makes a fascinating distinction between two types of regret: regrets of action and regrets of inaction.

Imagination is the road less taken, but it is the pathway of prayer.

We don't see the world as it is; we see the world as we are...if someone has a critical eye, they will always find something to be critical about. And if they have a grateful eye, they will find something to celebrate even in the worst of circumstances...Having a "good eye" in life changes how you see yourself and everything around you... your focus determines your reality.

Before you step into what if, you have to get past if only.

Every once in a while, I need a no-agenda day with nothing to do, but those aren't the days we're going to celebrate at the end of our lives. We won't even remember those days. What we'll remember are the days when we had everything to do, and with God's help, we did it. We won't remember the things that came easy; we'll remember the things that came hard. We'll remember the miracles on the far side of "long and boring.

You may be the only Bible some people ever read. So the question is: Are you a good translation?

God often speaks loudest when we're quietest.

Worship is forgetting about what's wrong with you and remembering what's right with God.

Journaling is the difference between learning and remembering. It's also the difference between forgetting and fulfilling our goals.

Death is a mirror that gives us a glimpse of who we really are. Death is a rearview mirror that puts the past into perspective.

The paradigm shift happens when we come to terms with the fact that the world doesn't revolve around us.

We are living in a time where the hearing from God is bombarded by many frequencies and voices. This noise, corrosive in nature, makes it difficult to hear God's voice...living with more noise means we live less like a disciple. We need a prism. Eric Samuel Timm is a prism.

We have a natural tendency to remember what we should forget and forget what we should remember. That's where mantras come in. They serve as

Our lives are not just measured in minutes. They are measured in moments—moments when the minutes stand still.

Experiences are the currency of a life well lived.

whatever you don't turn into praise turns into pride.

But over the long haul, we regret inactions more than actions, 84 to 16 percent.