Quotes About Reflection

Perhaps at this time in your life you are tired and frustrated—with your career, with your marriage, with your children, with society, with your spiritual life—but Jesus is saying to you, "Put out into the deep water and lower your nets for a catch." In the story we know that Simon and his friends listen to Jesus and do what he suggests, and they

Some people come into our lives for only a season, but their fingerprints remain all over our lives until the end

If you sense that something is missing in your life, stop ignoring it. Start paying attention to it. God is trying to tell you something.

If you have ever been on the receiving end of carlessness, you know it changes you.

Allow the ordinary to heal you.

we became the books we read.

We build our lives one choice at a time.

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.

Do we know how to make choices? Are we aware of our choices when we are making them? Are we conscious that when we say yes to one thing we automatically say no to everything else? Did we ever really learn to make choices?

More than just a time and a place to pray, Dynamic Catholics have a routine within their routine. When they sit down to pray each day, they don't just see what happens; they have a routine within the routine. They tend to begin their time of prayer in very specific ways: by reading the Bible, praying the morning prayers of the Church, reading from a favorite spiritual book, etc.

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In a world where so little makes sense, understanding our essential purpose makes sense of everything. In a world of clutter and confusion, understanding our essential purpose brings a startling clarity to the moments of our everyday lives. In a world filled with experts and their contradictory theories, understanding our essential purpose helps us to listen once again to the quiet voice within.

The world compares me to my neighbor, but God compares me to my former self. Every day God invites me to improve on my former self. It is a constant invitation to transformation.

Clarity emerges from silence, not meetings. You need the silence so you have something worth saying in the meetings.

You will only ever see less than one percent of the impact you have on people's lives.

By doing exactly the same things we did yesterday, but with a new mind-set, we are able to inject incredible meaning into the most mundane things—

Loneliness is not brutal like that, but it can be a painful way to learn. Interestingly, solitude is the cure for loneliness. When we are afraid of being alone, we should go into it. Dive deep into it. Solitude teaches profound lessons, especially about ourselves. Feeling lonely has value. Sometimes we need to turn inward to discover what we need to hold on to and what we need to let go of.

Loneliness, or solitude, or perhaps both, teach us who we are deep down beyond the influences of parents, teachers, friends, and current culture. Loneliness and solitude teach us what is really important and what is trivial nonsense. Loneliness is a form of hunger, and hunger is good for us. Loneliness and solitude teach us gratitude. Yes, there are differences between the two, but they intermingle and often it is impossible to separate them.

Nunca faltes a tu tiempo de oración diaria. Si surge algo inesperado, hazlo más temprano, pero nunca pospongas tu oración. Si lo haces, te encontrarás casi inevitablemente al final del día habiendo estado ocupado con tantas cosas que significan muy poco en el gran esquema de las cosas, pero sin pasar tiempo con Dios de esta manera tan poderosa y personal

Matthew Kelly

Darkness is a kind of visual silence, and monks love it.

Books and people are alike in one respect: they're both full of thoughts.

if I could flatter myself, that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion in two hours, as you did in two minutes.

Given a few days to contemplate it, the firing on Fort Sumter had cut through what had been a tangle of painful questions and a thicket obscuring who bore responsibility for thrusting them on the country.