Quotes about Reflection

At the end of life, each of us must answer the question, Whose story captured my soul?

Suffering always reveal idols of the heart.

So often, it's others around us who can see where God wants to grow us even before we see it ourselves.

Whenever you are in a critical temper, it is impossible to enter into communion with God.

If counseling is to be restored to the church, affection must be restored to reflection. If counseling is to be restored to the church, delight in God must be restored to doctrines about God. Savoring Christ must be restored to seeing Christ. Tender contrition must be restored to tough conviction. Communication with God must be restored to contending for God.

I'll take a bath and then I'll return." No, God is the bath.

You don't get to a better place with God until you recognize that where you are is not as good.

Too often Jesus Christ was not my Master but a bystander I visited with at church occasionally.

When we experience God for who He really is, we suddenly see ourselves for who we are.

Where is the church persevering in the priority of prayer?

Of course God went after Jonah, inquiring gently, "Do you do well to be angry?" However, insane from isolation, Jonah answers remarkably, "Yes, I do well to be angry, angry enough to die." Wow!

Turning to him, Spurgeon said, "If you had gone up the way you came down, you could have come down the way you went up.