Quotes about Introspection
If our eyes could see everything, every man would see his own faults.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
My life's an open book. Some of the pages are a little ripped, but it's open.
— Tim LaHaye
He knew himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme.
— John Milton
The first and wisest of them all professed to know this only, that he nothing knew.
— John Milton
Solitude sometimes is best society.
— John Milton
What is dark within me, illumine.
— John Milton
I am disappointed with myself. I am disappointed not so much with the particular things I have done as with the aspects of who I have become. I have a nagging sense that all is not as it should be.
— John Ortberg
I am disappointed with myself. I am disappointed not so much with the particular things I have done as with the aspects of who I have become. I have a nagging sense that all is not as it should be.
— John Ortberg
We need to attend diligently to the state of our soul, and to deal fervently and effectively with God about it.
— John Owen
Most of your unhappiness in life comes from the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself.
— John Piper
On July 30, 1723, when he was nineteen years old, Edwards wrote in his diary, "I have concluded to endeavor to work myself into duties by searching and tracing back all the real reasons why I do them not, and narrowly searching out all the subtle subterfuges of my thoughts." A week later he wrote, "Very much convinced of the extraordinary deceitfulness of the heart, and how exceedingly… appetite blinds the mind, and brings it into entire subjection.
— John Piper
Mental health is, in great measure, the gift of self-forgetfulness. The reason is that introspection destroys what matters most to us- the authentic experience of great things outside ourselves.
— John Piper