Quotes About Reflection

You could tell a lot about people who would stop what they were doing to watch the Almighty go about His business.

We must stop listening to voices from the past--and we must stop immediately.--Father Tim

All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art. JL Borges

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard ; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common—this is my symphony. William Henry Channing, clergyman, reformer, 1810-1884

He remembered the gravestone of a woman parishioner in the churchyard of St. John's in the Grove. DEMURE AT LAST, it read. He thought that the single most definitive and amusing epitaph he'd ever come across.

The waters hold all heaven within their heart.

whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely . . . think on these things.

With my mother's death," Lewis wrote, "all settled happiness, all that was tranquil and reliable, disappeared from my life. There was to be much fun, many pleasures, many stabs of Joy; but no more of the old security.

How could he do possibly want to do this fool thing?…Maybe it wasn't about wanting or not wanting. Though he was beyond serving the mission field, wasn't his own town a mission field?…And didn't charity begin at home?

Perhaps, he thought, we should all live as if we're dying.

When we receive the bread and blood, we, also, are touching God...I know you recognize that wonderous fact, dear brother, but sometimes it's good to be reminded.

The world is too much with us; late and soon,' " he said, quoting Wordsworth. " 'Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;/ little we see in Nature that is ours;/ we have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!

It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

He had laughed today; he had been happy. He didn't know why he had not counted more sunny hours in his life, but he hadn't. God had clearly asked him to, but he was intent on having his own nature, and his own nature could be inward, even melancholy. He didn't like it, but here it was.

No two persons every read the same book.—Edmund Wilson "Nor does any one person ever reread the same book!

In any decision making, he'd learned to wait for the peace; it was heedless to make a move without it. There was no time for waiting, and yet waiting was imperative.

Indeed, it seemed to be the wont of most people in a distracted and frantic world to blast through an experience without savoring it or, later, reflecting upon it.

I believe there's somebody like him in every pew—asking a simple question, needing a simple answer.

Rest. Rest. Rest in God's love," Madame Guyon had written. "The only work you are required now to do is to give your most intense attention to His still, small voice within.

Thank you God for so many dreams coming true. Thank you for everything. Even confusion and hard decisions.

Let the peace of this place surround you as you sit or kneel quietly. Let the hurry and worry of your life fall away. You are God's child. He loves you and cares for you, and is here with you now and always. Speak to Him thoughtfully, give yourself time for Him to bring things to mind.

You could tell a lot about people who would stop what they were doin' to watch the Almighty go about his business.

Thomas à Kempis: "Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a book.

In any decision making, he'd learned to wait for the peace; it was heedless to make a move without it. There was no time for waiting, and yet waiting was imperative.