Quotes about Introspection

It is part of the cure to want to be cured.

One should count each day a separate life.

Speech is the mirror of the mind.

Augustine of Hippo said, "Let us leave a little room for reflection in our lives, room too for silence. Let us look within ourselves and see whether there is some delightful hidden place inside where we can be free of noise and argument. Let us hear the Word of God in stillness and perhaps we will then come to understand it.

Francis de Sales, a sixteenth-century bishop, said, "We often say that we are nothing, that we are misery itself and the refuse of the world, but we would be very sorry if anyone took us at our word or told others that we are really such as we say.

We must take a plunge into the darkness before we can fully appreciate the light.

I truly understand that there is a lesson in everything that happens to us. So I tried not to spend my time asking "Why did this happen to me?" but trying to figure out why I had chosen this.

Take care lest you play the hypocrite by spending all your time trying to get others right before you worship God yourself.

The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time.

I spent most of my time talking to God more than to people.

Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.

I believe with the best of who I am in God, but I sometimes think if anybody would watch me and [they] didn't believe a damn thing, they would have a very hard time deciding which of us is which.