Quotes About Reflection

You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah

And now, O Lord, for what do I wait? My hope is in You.

I have become mute; I do not open my mouth because of what You have done.

You discipline and correct a man for his iniquity, consuming like a moth what he holds dear; surely each man is but a vapor. Selah

Turn Your gaze away from me, that I may again be cheered before I depart and am no more.”

These things come to mind as I pour out my soul: how I walked with the multitude, leading the procession to the house of God with shouts of joy and praise.

O my God, my soul despairs within me. Therefore I remember You from the land of Jordan and the peaks of Hermon—even from Mount Mizar.

For our soul has sunk to the dust; our bodies cling to the earth.

Listen, O daughter! Consider and incline your ear: Forget your people and your fatherís house,

“Be still and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted over the earth.”

Within Your temple, O God, we contemplate Your loving devotion.

consider her ramparts, tour her citadels, that you may tell the next generation.

My mouth will impart wisdom, and the meditation of my heart will bring understanding.

I will incline my ear to a proverb; I will express my riddle with the harp:

This is the fate of the self-confident and their followers who endorse their sayings. Selah

Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you to pieces, with no one to rescue you:

For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me.

Surely You desire truth in the inmost being; You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.

God looks down from heaven upon the sons of men to see if any understand, if any seek God.

Hear my prayer, O God; listen to the words of my mouth.

Attend to me and answer me. I am restless in my complaint, and distraught

My heart murmurs within me, and the terrors of death assail me.

How far away I would flee! In the wilderness I would remain. Selah

Awake, my glory! Awake, O harp and lyre! I will awaken the dawn.