Quotes About Reflection

People are ruined, not so much by doing what is amiss, as by doing it and not repenting of it, doing it and standing to it.

Many mourn for their sins that do not truly repent of them, weep bitterly for them, and yet continue in love and league with them.

The most quieting considerations under affliction are those that are fetched from the word of God.

When God corrects us or ours for sin, it is our duty to be silent under the correction

the regrettable past should be left to languish wherever it took itself when it was finished being the enjoyable present

We are not here to solve the problems; the problems are here to solve us.

We become the stories we listen to. But perhaps the more important question is, what stories do you listen to? What stories are forming your life?

On the one hand, we all want to be happy. On the other hand, we all know the things that make us happy. But we don't do those things. Why? Simple. We are too busy. Too busy doing what? Too busy trying to be happy.

You don't have to go to Mass if you can tell me the one thing that you are going to do while I am at church with all your brothers that is more important than going to church and thanking God for another week of life

The most dominant quality among Dynamic Catholics is a daily routine of prayer. • A daily routine refers to a specific time and place set aside for prayer. Dynamic Catholics make this time a priority each day.

Whatever change you desire for the world, create that change in your own life. You are here for a purpose. Seek it out. Hunt it down. The greatest misery is to be purposeless. The great depression of our age is not economic, but spiritual. Our spiritual poverty is rooted in our purposelessness.

We are not here to solve the problems; the problems are here to solve us. This is one of the supernatural mysteries of our journeys here on earth.

It is perhaps the result of a culture that prefers us to be passive. The passive me says: "Feed me"; "Entertain me"; "Hold me"; "Love me"; "Listen to me"; "Tell me I matter"; "Make me a priority"; "Don't make me think too much or work too hard"; and so

I continue to believe that we can learn more in an hour of silence than we can in a year from books.

Quite simply, if our life of prayer is inconsistent, our ability to do or know God's will throughout the day will have the same inconsistency.

We are called to become people of prayer, not people of the device.

From time to time it is good for us all to learn to listen again. Listen to those you love. Listen to your body. Listen to your conscience and soul. Listen to God.

It is impossible to be bored at Mass if you come to listen to what God has to say to you right now in your life. It doesn't matter how good or bad the homily is; God will speak to you through it. It doesn't matter how good or bad the music is; God will speak to you through it. Whether it is a wonderful, prayerful mood or there are kids running up and down the aisle throwing crayons and eating potato chips; God will speak to you.

We all die, and yet, so often we conduct our lives as if we were going to live forever. If you knew you were going to die one year from today, how would you change your life?

Four words: Be gentle with yourself. It turns out they are some of the wisest words anyone has ever shared with me.

One thing I have noticed about continuous learners is they tend to have pen and paper with them at all times, because they never know when they are going to hear something great or have an idea.

But science cannot provide deeply personal answers to your deeply personal questions. It cannot answer those four questions we identified earlier: Who are you? What are you here for? What matters most? What matters least?

Time is either used wisely or wasted foolishly.

Choices got you here, but if you don't like "here" all you need to do is start making different choices.