Quotes of: Reflections Keyword

On one hand the eternal attraction of man towards femininity (cf. Gn. 2:23) frees in him-or perhaps it should free-a gamut of spiritual-corporal desires of an especially personal and "sharing" nature (cf. analysis of the "beginning"), to which a prop...

Purity of Heart: Reflections on Love and Lust / Pope John Paul II's Theology of the Body in Simple Language, Vol. 2

100% of a Guru’s marketing plan depends on you holding the belief that you are not enough; that you were created less equipped than necessary to fulfill your purpose. What if you let go of that belief and connected with the truth of your innate pow...

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

Ideas and philosophies have a shelf-life. They must be kept fresh and renewed or they will spoil. If left unattended, the same ideas and philosophies that once nourished you and helped you grow can poison you and make you sick. Become aware of new id...

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

The figure in the icon is not meant to represent literally what Peter or John or any of the apostles looked like, or what Mary looked like, nor the child, Jesus. But, the orthodox painter feels, Jesus of Nazareth did not walk around Galilee faceless....

Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

And in "Elbow Room" the cast sings the glories of westward expansion in the United States, which involved the murder of native peoples and the violent conquest of half of Mexico. Among the lines in the song is one that intones, "There were plenty of ...

White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son

What does it mean to be cultured? Who is the cultured person? The cultured individual is not defined nor determined by status in society nor by wealth; but the cultured individual is determined and defined by his or her sense for the art of life. And...

C. JoyBell C.

I have found that the more I reflect philosophically on the attributes of God the more overwhelmed I become at his greatness and the more excited I become about Bible doctrine. Whereas easy appeals to mystery prematurely shut off reflection about God...

The Only Wise God: The Compatibility of Divine Foreknowledge & Human Freedom

The mind would rather fret about the future or pine over the past — so the mind can cling to its own illusion of control. But the current moment? It cannot be controlled. And what a mind can’t control, it tends to discount. Brush past ... over. I...

One Thousand Gifts Devotional: Reflections on Finding Everyday Grace

If for instance the sentiment possessing for the moment the empire of our mind is sorrow, will not the genius sharpen the sorrow and the sorrow purify the genius? Together, will they not be like a cut diamond for which language is only the wax on whi...

Charlotte Bronte

Her underwear, her jeans, the comforter, my corduroys and my boxers between us, I thought. Five layers, and yet I felt it, the nervous warmth of touching – a pale reflection of the fireworks of one mouth on another, but a reflection nonetheless. An...

John Green

Unfortunately, we-especially in the United States-have become increasingly mechanized, so that today we feel very strongly that if we can take anything out of human hands and especially out of the human heart and put it through a machine, we have mad...

Ashley Montagu

I've done a lot of growing up since the age of 16 and I really wanted that to be reflected in my music.

Kelly Osbourne

My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life.

Carl Andre

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections

Any order is a balancing act of extreme precariousness.

Illuminations: Essays and Reflections

What has been forgotten.... is never something purely individual.

Illuminations: Essays and Reflections

Hypocrisy is a tribute that vice pays to virtue.

Reflections or Sentences and Moral Maxims

As someone has said "gods" is not really the plural of God; God has no plural.

Reflections on the Psalms

A man can’t be always defending the truth; there must be a time to feed on it.

Reflections on the Psalms

Most good decisions that a person make are a result of reflection and the will to change.

The Reason

Today our children are our reflection. Tomorrow they will be our shadows.

Manners That Matter for Moms