Quotes about Introspection

When the dust clears and in the quiet of your own heart, what kind of God do you believe in, really? And why?

Walking the path of faith means trusting God enough to let our uh-oh moments expose how we create God to fit in our thinking.

The broader we cast our net, the deeper we wind up owning our own thoughts.

I didn't know how to "do" faith without making sure my thoughts about God were lined up, and so, once those thoughts failed to be compelling, my faith sank.

The big lesson I learned from wrestling with my own curveballs is how deeply my faith in God had been cemented in fear—which is to say, how I viewed God as very much antagonistic toward me. And so any thought on my part of listening to my experiences and interrogating my inherited faith—to inspect its boundaries let alone climb over its walls—was seen as a crisis that had to be averted or at least resolved immediately.

But at least I didn't do any harm. Along the way I came to see more and more that being right about God and making sure everyone else agreed with what I knew might not be the most important thing I could do in God's eyes.

To live by faith—to live wisely—means living with an ever-increasing awareness of the hidden things, not simply a detached general knowledge that, say, "Money can be harmful," but a deep knowledge of ourselves, a true self-awareness of what money is doing to me . . . right now.

Is there any help within me now that success is driven from me?

Why has your heart carried you away, and why do your eyes flash,

Even if I have truly gone astray, my error concerns me alone.

how much less man, who is but a maggot, and the son of man, who is but a worm!”

because I greatly feared the crowds and the contempt of the clans terrified me, so that I kept silent and would not go outside—