Quotes About Reflection

Seriously. All those times I said I hated you? I didn't. I realise that now. That hate was nothing. It was a microscopic semen stain on the hotel mattress of life. But this hate I feel now is so much more. It's bukkake-level compared to what came before.

All That You Can't Leave Behind and How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb are both really mad long titles. As I've just said them, I've just realised how ridiculous the titles are.

Our Love has slowly slipped away,Our Love has seen its better day.

Even the most regular, seemingly unimportant tasks of my life must be shaped and directed by a heartfelt desire for the glory of God.

God hasn't just sent you to do his work in the lives of your children; he will use the lives of your children to advance his work in you.

If I am going to see myself clearly, I need you to hold the mirror of God's Word in front of me.

No one is more influential in your life than you are because no one talks to you more than you do. It's a fact that you and I are in an endless conversation with ourselves.

Every awesome thing in creation is designed to point you to the One who alone is worthy of capturing and controlling the awe of your searching and hungry heart.

The minute you hear a sermon on materialism, you're glad somebody else is there to hear it.

you become like the treasure that you seek.

On the glorious splendor of your majesty, and on your wondrous works, I will meditate. PSALM 145:5

Tender, heartfelt worship is hard for a person who thinks of himself as having arrived. No one celebrates the presence and grace of the Lord Jesus Christ more than the person who has embraced his desperate and daily need of it.

You'll never celebrate grace as much as you should when you think you're more righteous than you actually are.

Only when I focus on the holiness and glory of God am I able to see myself with accuracy.

Here's how gospel growth works: you cannot grieve what you do not see, you cannot confess what you haven't grieved, and you can't repent of what you haven't confessed.

Grace allows you to face your sin, to own it and not shift the blame.

Perhaps before you start confessing your sin you should first confess your righteousness.

Midlife doesn't introduce you to a new you; it forces you to admit who you have been all along.

It is dangerous to live without your heart being captured by awe of God, because awe of God is quickly replaced by awe of you.

One of the most important questions you could ask is: "What is God doing in the here and now?

When you are suffering, you have to force yourself to pay attention to your private conversation, that is, the words you say to yourself that no one else hears.

It is important for all parents to examine the system of belief that shapes their moment-by-moment interactions with their children.

In the busyness and self-centeredness of our lives, we sadly forget how much our lives have been blessed by and radically redirected by mercy.

the struggle of midlife is fundamentally rooted in the idolatries of the heart.