Quotes About Reflection

Knowledge is an exercise of your brain. Wisdom is the commitment of your heart that leads to transformation of your life.

Let yourself be humbled by how little you know and how few things you are able to do.

The heart of the righteous weighs its answers" (Prov. 15:28).

In a moment, your thoughts can seem more important than they actually are. In a moment, your emotions can seem more reliable than they really are. In a moment, your needs can seem more essential than they truly are.

Ask yourself: What makes your good day a good day? What are the things that tend to make you happy and satisfied? What gives your life a sense of meaning and purpose? What are the things you faithfully pursue, and what are you hoping to experience once you get them? If I watched the video of your last year, what treasure would I conclude you're after?

Corporate worship is a regular gracious reminder that it's not about you. You've been born into a life that is a celebration of another.

In fact, one of the things that makes a sermon compelling is that the preacher is worshiping his way through his own sermon.

In his mind, he held up all the artifacts he had collected over the years and wondered about their true value.

El hecho triste es que muchos de nosotros simplemente no somos bíblicos en la forma que usamos la Biblia! Ser bíblico no significa simplemente citar palabras de sus páginas. Ser verdaderamente bíblico significa que mi consejo refleje el tema general de la Biblia. La Biblia es un relato, una historia de redención, y su personaje principal es Jesucristo.

The cross welcomes us to look inside and around us and be dissatisfied. It welcomes us not to the dissatisfaction that leaves us hopeless, but a dissatisfaction that leads us to the foot of the cross where mercy and grace are found.

As much as we try to make sense of our lives, there are things that we simply aren't able to understand.

You don't need to read a mystery novel; your life is a mystery to you.

Mourning means you recognize the most important reality in the human existence, sin. Mourning means you have been hit by the weight of what it has done to you and to everyone you know.

Prayer is abandoning your place in the center of your world and daily surrendering that place to God alone as an act of heartfelt worship.

Your story is a biography of wisdom and grace written by another.

A joyful life of grace toward others grows best in the soil of gratitude. When I really reflect on who I am, when I take time to consider the grace that I couldn't have earned, achieved, or deserved but which has been lavished on me, and when I remember that that grace came at the cost of the life of another, then I am joyfully motivated to give that grace to others.

Corporate worship is designed to humble you by pointing out the depth of your need and enthrall you by pointing to the glory of God's provision.

una buena exégesis de las Escrituras conduce a una exégesis correcta de la vida de la persona.

Horizontal awe is meant to do one thing: stimulate vertical

The character of a life isn't set in ten big moments. The character of a life is set in ten thousand little moments of everyday life. It's the themes of struggles that emerge from those little moments that reveal what's really going on in our hearts.

It's only when my heart is captured by the awe of God that I will view my identity rightly.

Jesús nos llama a humillarnos y a admitir que el mayor peligro para cada uno de nosotros no reside fuera de nosotros, sino en la iniquidad de nuestro propio corazón.

Perhaps in ways that you have never come close to considering, your dissatisfaction is an awe problem.

Cuando todos los días admito qué tan necesitado estoy, todos los días medito en la gracia del Señor Jesucristo y todos los días me alimento de la sabiduría restauradora de Su Palabra, estoy motivado para compartir con los demás la gracia que todos los días estoy recibiendo de las manos de mi Salvador.