Reflection Quotes - Page 37

• MOST of the ugliness in the human narrative comes from a distorted quest to possess beauty. COVETING begins with appreciating blessings: MURDER begins with a hunger for justice. LUST begins with a recognition of beauty. GLUTTONY begins when our enjoyment of the delectable gifts of GOD starts to consume us. IDOLATRY begins when our seeing a reflection of God in something beautiful leads to our thinking that the beautiful image bearer is worthy of WORSHIP.

  Shane Claiborne

  Beautiful, Thinking, Blessing

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• Climbing is individual thing, it's a reflection of yourself. When you put up a route you're looking at yourself. If you chisel holds, it's your responsibility, nobody else's.

  Ron Kauk

  Responsibility, Climbing, Individual

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• There is an infinity of landscape here, caused by the purity of the atmosphere. It has been said that there is a lack of colour. It is not so obvious as the greenness of England, but it is infinitely more varied and more delicate in tone. The landscape is a pinky mauve, a lilac, and the reflection of the sun of the particles of the atmosphere is a warm amber. So I should say our colour scheme is amber and lilac.

  Hans Heysen

  Atmosphere, Amber, Landscape

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• Liberty and democracy are eternal enemies, and every one knows it who has ever given any sober reflection to the matter.

  H. L. Mencken

  Enemy, Democracy, Liberty

  "Liberty and Democracy". Baltimore Evening Sun (April 13, 1925) as quoted in "A Second Mencken Chrestomathy: A New Selection from the Writings of America's Legendary Editor, Critic, and Wit" edited by Terry Teachout (p. 35), 1994.

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• I wish for each of you a time, perhaps only an hour, spent in silent meditation and quiet reflection on the wonder and the majesty of this, the Son of God. Our joy at this season is because He came into the world.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Son, Meditation, Joy

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• For whatever be the knowledge which
  we are able to obtain of God, either by
  perception or reflection, we must of
  necessity believe that He is by many
  degrees far better than what we
  perceive Him to be.

  Origen

  Believe, Perception, Degrees

  Origen (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Origen (Annotated Edition)”, p.60, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Constantly worrying about your reflection and criticizing your body, shape and size is an act of violence against yourself.

  Emma Thompson

  Worry, Body, Shapes

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• When, by meditation, we withdraw restless thoughts from the lake of the mind, we behold our soul, a perfect reflection of Spirit.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Lakes, Perfect, Meditation

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• Influences come from everywhere but when you are actually shooting you work primarily by instinct. But what is instinct? It is a lifetime accumulation of influence: experience, knowledge, seeing and hearing. There is little time for reflection in taking a photograph. All your experiences come to a peak and you work on two levels: conscious and unconscious.

  Arnold Newman

  Two, Shooting, Levels

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• I am one of the writers who wish to create serious works of literature which dissociate themselves from those novels which are mere reflections of the vast consumer cultures of Tokyo and the subcultures of the world at large.

  Kenzaburo Oe

  Wish, Culture, Serious Work

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• In most of our dreams, our inner eye of reflection is shut and we sleep within our sleep. The exception takes place when we seem to awake within our dreams, without disturbing or ending the dream state, and learn to recognize that we are dreaming while the dream is still happening.

  Stephen LaBerge

  Dream, Sleep, Eye

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• With the backdrop of The Salvation Army's century and a half of service to the world's poor, these songs and reflections are born of meaningful engagement with a living Gospel

  Sara Groves

  Meaningful, Song, Army

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• Ten years ago I was not heavily involved in the film world but on reflection it was a boom time with the mineral boom happening, so there was immense growth for industrial training films, documentaries to do with the mining, and the outback world.

  Ann Macbeth

  Years, Training, Growth

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• One bright and thankful look at the cross is worth a thousand morbid, self-condemning reflections.

  A. B. Simpson

  Self, Looks, Morbid

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• Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which all religions agree (for all forbid us to steal, murder, plunder, or bear false witness), and that we should not intermeddle with the particular dogmas in which all religions differ, and which are totally unconnected with morality.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Reading, Bears, Morality

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.281, Cambridge University Press

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• Any beauty you see in me is only a reflection of Him, any ugliness, a reflection of my self.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Self, Ugliness

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• Your business and results are a reflection of you. Your business and results will grow in direct proportion to your own growth.

  James Arthur Ray

  Growth, Results, Proportion

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• Rainbows introduce us to reflections
  of different beautiful possibilities
  so we never forget that pain and grief
  are not the final options in life.

  Aberjhani

  Beautiful, Pain, Grief

  Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.51, Lulu.com

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• In the stream,
  Rushing past
  To the dusty world,
  My fleeting form
  Casts no reflection.

  Dogen

  Past, Rushing, Fleeting

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• The Amateur Marriage grew out of the reflection that of all the opportunities to show differences in character, surely an unhappy marriage must be the richest.

  Anne Tyler

  Character, Opportunity, Differences

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• I had a born-again experience at the age of 33. As a result of that I found a church where I felt I was being fed properly. I don't say that as a reflection on Catholicism. But once I was born again, I got an evangelical spirit.

  Bill McCartney

  Catholic, Age, Church

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• If you don't like the reflection. Don't look in the mirror. I don't care.

  Luka Magnotta

  Mirrors, Care, Looks

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• Show respect to people who don't deserve it. Not as a reflection of their character, but of yours.

  Dave Willis

  Character, People, Show Respect

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• You can domesticate your body, but you can't domesticate your face - even by having a lift or having your nose bobbed. A face bears the reflection of our nature, which in the beginning is veiled by the attractiveness of youth. But as soon as youth begins to go, everything written on the face starts to come to the surface, and pretty soon it's engraved there. No landscape can equal a human face that's been molded by its own owner.

  Francoise Giroud

  Nature, Landscape, Faces

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• Chess is not for the faint-hearted; it absorbs a person entirely. To get to the bottom of this game, he has to give himself up into slavery. Chess is difficult, it demands work, serious reflection and zealous research.

  Wilhelm Steinitz

  Success, Games, Giving

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