Quotes About Reflection

That is why many among you are weak and sick, and a number of you have fallen asleep.

When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I set aside childish ways.

Now we see but a dim reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into His image with intensifying glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.

For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive his due for the things done in the body, whether good or bad.

Even if I caused you sorrow by my letter, I do not regret it. Although I did regret it, I now see that my letter caused you sorrow, but only for a short time.

Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Canít you see for yourselves that Jesus Christ is in you—unless you actually fail the test?

Have you suffered so much for nothing, if it really was for nothing?

Each one should test his own work. Then he will have reason to boast in himself alone, and not in someone else.

When you lived among them, you also used to walk in these ways.

Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful,

Consider what I am saying, for the Lord will give you insight into all things.

For I am already being poured out like a drink offering, and the time of my departure is at hand.

do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness,

where your fathers tested and tried Me, and for forty years saw My works.

And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

Therefore, while the promise of entering His rest still stands, let us be careful that none of you be deemed to have fallen short of it.

For somewhere He has spoken about the seventh day in this manner: “And on the seventh day God rested from all His works.”

Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will fall by following the same pattern of disobedience.

My beloved brothers, understand this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to anger,

For anyone who hears the word but does not carry it out is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror,

and after observing himself goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like.

But the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom, and continues to do so—not being a forgetful hearer, but an effective doer—he will be blessed in what he does.

We all stumble in many ways. If anyone is never at fault in what he says, he is a perfect man, able to control his whole body.