Quotes About Reflection

if you learn from every mistake, then there is no such thing as failure anyway.

We should stop asking God to get us out of difficult circumstances and start asking Him what He wants us to get out of those difficult circumstances

Half of spiritual growth is learning what we don't know. The other half is unlearning what we do know.

Prayer turns us into first-class noticers. It helps us see what God wants us to notice. The more you pray, the more you notice; the less you pray, the less you notice. It's as simple as that. Let me explain how

Quiet is a think tank of the soul."17 Simply put, God often speaks loudest when we're quietest.

The survey consisted of one question: If you had your life to live all over again, what would you do differently? Three replies emerged as a consensus. One, risk more. Two, reflect more. Three, do more things that live on after you die.

In his brilliant book The Road to Character, David Brooks makes a distinction between résumé virtues and eulogy virtues. Résumé virtues are the skills you need to make a living, and those are often the most celebrated virtues in our culture. But when it comes to making a life, eulogy virtues win the day. These are the virtues that get talked about at your funeral.

Who you become is determined by how you pray.

The Bible wasn't meant merely to be read. It was meant to be prayed through, meditated on, and lived out. If all you do is read it, all you've done is audit the Word of God. And you don't get credit for an audit. You've simply been educated beyond the level of your obedience.

Who you become is determined by how you pray. Ultimately, the transcript of your prayers becomes the script of your life.

The shortest pencil is longer than the longest memory

If you want to hear His comforting voice, you have to listen to His convicting voice.

we think so much about the present and so little about eternity that we turn eternity into nothing and nothing into eternity.

The Bible wasn't meant to be read; it was meant to be prayed. Start reading, and God will start speaking. And that's when you need to stop reading and start praying.

your life is your sermon...Are you a good translation?

If you want to discover your God-ordained passions, then you need to identify what makes you sad, mad, or glad.

Before going wherever God wants to take you next, is there some place you need to go back to? Sometimes the way forward is backward. "The farther backward you can look," said Winston Churchill, "the farther forward you can see."3

La distancia más corta entre tú y Dios es la misma que hay entre tus rodillas y el suelo.

G. K. Chesterton said that his goal in life was to take nothing for granted—not a sunrise, not a smile, not a flower, nothing. That is a truly wonderful approach to life. Don't take anything for granted. Truly appreciate every minute that you have to live. My near-death experience has helped me be better at that. If I hadn't almost died, I wouldn't have figured out how to live.

Prayer is the inheritance we receive and the legacy we leave.

The Bible isn't meant to be read reactively. It is meant to be prayed proactively.

If Christians believe that God is in every person, why don't we act like that?

time is measured in minutes, while life is measured in moments.

This verse is not just about capturing sinful thoughts and getting them out of our minds; it's also about capturing creative thoughts and keeping them in our minds. It means stewarding every word, thought, impression, and revelation inspired by the Spirit of God.