Quotes about Reflection
Don't create theology about God so that you can feel better about Him.
— Matt Chandler
Before you go to sleep, run over your personal world mentally and thank God for everyone and everything.
— Norman Vincent Peale
God, give me a good humiliation every day. It's good for the soul and it's good for the ego.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
I feel strongly that the God we meet in solitude is always the God who calls us to community.
— Henri Nouwen
We worship God through our questions.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
I had made myself the center of my own existence and had my back turned to God.
— Bede Griffiths
The more I contemplate God, the more God looks on me. The more I pray to him, the more he thinks of me too.
— Bernard of Clairvaux
For I have learnt for a fact that nothing so effectively obtains, retains and regains grace, as that we should always be found not high-minded before God, but filled with holy fear.
— Bernard of Clairvaux
We ought to muse upon the things of God, because we thus get the real nutriment out of them.
— Charles Spurgeon
We become contemplatives when God discovers Himself in us.
— Thomas Merton
My God, I pray better to you by breathing and walking than by talking, just as in choir I sing best when I am thinking about something else, or better still, praying.
— Thomas Merton
If your god never disagrees with you, you might just be worshipping an idealized version of yourself.
— Timothy Keller