Quotes about Reflection
Even in the wilderness with scarce resources, God mandates a pause for Sabbath for the community:
— Walter Brueggemann
Sabbath is the visible acknowledgment that life is not defined by commoditization.
— Walter Brueggemann
So in Psalm 73, when life is inequitable, the speaker is aware of a skewed relationship in which one is less than human: When my soul was embittered, when I was pricked in heart, I was stupid and ignorant; I was like a brute beast toward you. (Ps. 73:21-22; cf. 102:7-8)49
— Walter Brueggemann
We used to sing the hymn "Take Time to Be Holy." But perhaps we should be singing, "Take time to be human." Or finally, "Take time." Sabbath is taking time … time to be holy … time to be human.
— Walter Brueggemann
Sabbath becomes a decisive, concrete, visible way of opting for and aligning with the God of rest.
— Walter Brueggemann
Prophetic preaching is dangerous work, not only because it has a subversive edge but because it requires an epistemological break with the assumed world of dominant imagination. This epistemological break makes us aware of our assumptions we have not recognized or reflected upon.
— Walter Brueggemann
I am not fit for this office and never should have been here.
— Warren G. Harding
There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the mind.
— Washington Irving
It is almost startling to hear this warning of departed time sounding among the tombs, and telling the lapse of the hour, which, like a billow, has rolled us onward towards the grave.
— Washington Irving
But a wide sea voyage severs us at once. It makes us conscious of being cast loose from the secure anchorage of settled life, and sent adrift upon a doubtful world. It interposes a gulf, not merely imaginary, but real, between us and our homes--a gulf, subject to tempest, and fear, and uncertainty, rendering distance palpable, and return precarious.
— Washington Irving
Surely happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven; and every countenance, bright with smiles, and glowing with innocent enjoyment, is a mirror transmitting to others the rays of a supreme and ever-shining benevolence.
— Washington Irving
Your soul - that inner quiet space - is yours to consult. It will always guide you in the right direction.
— Wayne Dyer