Quotes about Introspection

Let yourself be humbled by how little you know and how few things you are able to do.

The cross welcomes us to look inside and around us and be dissatisfied. It welcomes us not to the dissatisfaction that leaves us hopeless, but a dissatisfaction that leads us to the foot of the cross where mercy and grace are found.

Yet we all tend to think that we are more righteous than we are, and when we think this, we have taken the first step to embracing the delusion that maybe we're not so bad in God's eyes after all.

The appropriateness of my responses to others is directly related to the accuracy of my view of myself, and for that there is grace too.

Perhaps in ways that you have never come close to considering, your dissatisfaction is an awe problem.

Your Lord pries open your hands and takes away your crutches and distractions. He exposes your weaknesses so that you will cry out for what he knows you need, but what you have been willing to live without.

It is humbling to admit, but I have had to face the fact that the greatest danger to my ministry is me!

De wet is er niet alleen goed in om ons gedrag bloot te leggen, maar ook ons hart.

It's natural to want mercy for yourself but justice for others. It's natural to be very aware of the sin others, yet blind to your own. If we are ever going to be people of mercy, we need bountiful mercy ourselves, because what stands in the way of our being a community of mercy is us.

God's law is meant to address and expose the heart because sin is always a matter of the heart before it is an action of the body.

This means that my biggest, ongoing problem as a dad is not my children, it's me.

Self-righteousness means you don't see yourself or the other person with accuracy. It means you see his or her speck as a log and your log as a speck. So you are condemning of him or her and excusing of yourself. You treat the other person with judgment while you respond to yourself with patience.